Logan
Esdale
››› My workshop edition of Gertrude Stein’s novel Ida (1941) has just been published by Yale University Press, and so too has a related article on Stein’s archive, “Gertrude Stein’s Twin,” in Textual Practice (25.6). This new edition of Ida includes a suite of contextualizing materials: drafts, letters, and intertexts from Stein’s archive, essays by Thornton Wilder, her main interlocutor in the late 1930s, the story of the Ida character’s referent, Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, and the book reviews. See the review in The New York Times.
Three chapters from a book manuscript in progress, “Interpersonal Space, Letters, and Modernist American Writing,” are available: “Dickinson’s Epistolary ‘Naturalness,’” in The Emily Dickinson Journal (14.1); “Stein, Riding and The Space of Letters,” the Journal of Modern Literature (29.4); and “The Saintsbury Years of Marianne Moore,” in Textual Cultures (5.1). Material for this work on Stein and Moore came from the American literature collection at the Beinecke Library and the Marianne Moore collection at the Rosenbach Museum. A National Poetry Foundation collection on Ronald Johnson includes an essay of mine. Some recent book reviews are on Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters: Critical Essays, Catherine Morley’s The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction, Joel Bettridge’s Reading as Belief, and Ulla Dydo’s The Language That Rises. Some older reviews are on Thomas Gardner’s A Door Ajar, Graham Foust’s As In Every Deafness, and Juliana Spahr’s Everybody’s Autonomy. I have short essays on Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Laura Riding, and Jen Bervin, and have 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 image here is hers.) As well, I co-edit an advice column with Lara, and have made t-shirts. I grew up in Kamloops. I have a BA from UBC in Vancouver, Canada, an MA from UWO in London, Canada, and a PhD from SUNY Buffalo, USA. I teach at CSU Long Beach. ‹‹‹
››› My workshop edition of Gertrude Stein’s novel Ida (1941) has just been published by Yale University Press, and so too has a related article on Stein’s archive, “Gertrude Stein’s Twin,” in Textual Practice (25.6). This new edition of Ida includes a suite of contextualizing materials: drafts, letters, and intertexts from Stein’s archive, essays by Thornton Wilder, her main interlocutor in the late 1930s, the story of the Ida character’s referent, Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, and the book reviews. See the review in The New York Times.
Three chapters from a book manuscript in progress, “Interpersonal Space, Letters, and Modernist American Writing,” are available: “Dickinson’s Epistolary ‘Naturalness,’” in The Emily Dickinson Journal (14.1); “Stein, Riding and The Space of Letters,” the Journal of Modern Literature (29.4); and “The Saintsbury Years of Marianne Moore,” in Textual Cultures (5.1). Material for this work on Stein and Moore came from the American literature collection at the Beinecke Library and the Marianne Moore collection at the Rosenbach Museum. A National Poetry Foundation collection on Ronald Johnson includes an essay of mine. Some recent book reviews are on Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters: Critical Essays, Catherine Morley’s The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction, Joel Bettridge’s Reading as Belief, and Ulla Dydo’s The Language That Rises. Some older reviews are on Thomas Gardner’s A Door Ajar, Graham Foust’s As In Every Deafness, and Juliana Spahr’s Everybody’s Autonomy. I have short essays on Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Laura Riding, and Jen Bervin, and have 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 image here is hers.) As well, I co-edit an advice column with Lara, and have made t-shirts. I grew up in Kamloops. I have a BA from UBC in Vancouver, Canada, an MA from UWO in London, Canada, and a PhD from SUNY Buffalo, USA. I teach at CSU Long Beach. ‹‹‹