Michael Webster

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

"'floating particles of paper': E. E. Cummings' Collage Poems," Cahiers Charles V 34 (September 2003): 51-73. [Collage / Montage / Assemblage: Poésie Anglaise et Américaine. Ed. Paul Volsik]

"Poemgroups in No Thanks," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 11 (2002): 10-40.

"'le chant est le silence': Être et Néant dans la Poésie Visuelle de E. E. Cummings." Trans. Thierry Gillyboeuf. Plein Chant 74-74 (Winter-Spring 2002): 151-167. [Translation of "singing is silence"—see below.]

"E. E. Cummings: The New Nature Poetry and the Old," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 9 (2000): 109-124.

"Magic Iconism: Defamiliarization, Sympathetic Magic, and Visual Poetry (Apollinaire and Cummings)" European Journal of English Studies, 5 (2001): 97-113.

Review of Martin Heusser's I Am My Writing and Norman Friedman's (Re) Valuing Cummings in Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 8 (1999): 171-78.

"'singing is silence': Being and Nothing in the Visual Poetry of E. E. Cummings," Form Miming Meaning: Iconicity in Language and Literature. Ed. Olga Fischer and Max Nänny. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 1999. 199-214.

"'hatred bounces': Satire and Prejudice in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 7 (1998): 23-38.

"E. E. Cummings and the Reader:  Technique as Critique," Interart Poetics: Essays on the Interrelations of the Arts and Media. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. 223-232.

Reading Visual Poetry after Futurism: Marinetti, Apollinaire, Schwitters, Cummings.  New York: Peter Lang, 1995.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
"Cummings' Sinister Dexterity: Exercises in Meaning and Unmeaning," Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society 12 (2003).
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