Esdale

››› “Dickinson’s Epistolary ‘Naturalness’” and “Stein, Riding and The Space of Letters” and “The Saintsbury Years of Marianne Moore” are available in The Emily Dickinson Journal (14.1), the Journal of Modern Literature (29.4) and Textual Cultures (5.1) respectively. Material for the latter two essays comes from the American literature collection at the Beinecke Library and the Marianne Moore collection at the Rosenbach Museum. The essays are part of a book manuscript: Interpersonal Space, Letters, and Modernist American Writing. My critical edition of Gertrude Stein’s novel Ida is forthcoming from Yale University Press. A National Poetry Foundation collection on Ronald Johnson includes an essay of mine. Other essays are on Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding, Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Jen Bervin, Women Poets, Australian poets, Closure, Juliana Spahr’s Everybody’s Autonomy, Graham Foust’s As In Every Deafness, Thomas Gardner’s A Door Ajar, Ulla Dydo’s The Language That Rises, and Joel Bettridge’s Reading as Belief. I have also published a couple of poetry chapbooks, one out from Phylum Press and the other available here. Both were written in collaboration with the artwork of Lara Odell; for an exhibition of her work I wrote the catalogue introduction. (The drawing here is hers.) As well, I co-edit an advice column with Lara, have made t-shirts, and appreciate a particular type of censorship. ‹‹‹

Logan Esdale
››› “Dickinson’s Epistolary ‘Naturalness’” and “Stein, Riding and The Space of Letters” and “The Saintsbury Years of Marianne Moore” are available in The Emily Dickinson Journal (14.1), the Journal of Modern Literature (29.4) and Textual Cultures (5.1) respectively. Material for the latter two essays comes from the American literature collection at the Beinecke Library and the Marianne Moore collection at the Rosenbach Museum. The essays are part of a book manuscript: Interpersonal Space, Letters, and Modernist American Writing. My critical edition of Gertrude Stein’s novel Ida is forthcoming from Yale University Press. A National Poetry Foundation collection on Ronald Johnson includes an essay of mine. Other essays are on Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding, Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Jen Bervin, Women Poets, Australian poets, Closure, Juliana Spahr’s Everybody’s Autonomy, Graham Foust’s As In Every Deafness, Thomas Gardner’s A Door Ajar, Ulla Dydo’s The Language That Rises, and Joel Bettridge’s Reading as Belief. I have also published a couple of poetry chapbooks, one out from Phylum Press and the other available here. Both were written in collaboration with the artwork of Lara Odell; for an exhibition of her work I wrote the catalogue introduction. (The drawing here is hers.) As well, I co-edit an advice column with Lara, have made t-shirts, and appreciate a particular type of censorship. ‹‹‹
Department of English Chapman University (Orange CA) PhD, SUNY Buffalo MA, U of Western Ontario BA, U of British Columbia