ANDREW EPSTEIN, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Columbia University (2000), B.A. Haverford College, Pennsylvania (1992). Dr. Epstein specializes in twentieth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on poetry and post-World War II American literature and culture. His research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary poetry and poetics; issues in postmodernism; theories and practice of the avant-garde; twentieth-century experimental fiction; nineteenth-century American literature, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson and pragmatism, and its impact on twentieth-century writing; literature and culture of the Cold War; African-American poetry and fiction; theories and debates about everyday life and twentieth-century writing.

He is the author of the book Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006), which focuses on Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and Amiri Baraka. His poems and essays have appeared in Contemporary Literature, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Lingua Franca, Boston Review, American Book Review, Verse, and other journals.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Book

• Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006).

  Reviewed in American Literary History, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry, South Atlantic Review, American Literary Scholarship, Zen Monster, Choice, Publishers Weekly, Poetry Project Newsletter, Beat Scene, and Rain Taxi.

Essays

• "Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery." Cambridge Companion to American Poetry. Ed. Mark Richardson (forthcoming 2013).
• "'The Volley Maintained Nears Orgasm': Rae Armantrout, Ron Silliman, and the Cross-Gender Collaboration." In Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry. Eds. Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin (forthcoming, University of Iowa Press, 2013).
• "'The Rhapsody of Things as They Are': Stevens, Francis Ponge, and the Impossible Everyday." The Wallace Stevens Journal (forthcoming, 2012).
• "'Building a Nest Out of Torn Up Letters': James Schuyler, Trash, and the Poetics of Collage." Jacket2 (forthcoming 2012).
• "'There is No Content Here, Only Dailiness': Poetry as Critique of Everyday Life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak." Contemporary Literature 51.4 (2011): 736-776.
• "Found Poetry, 'Uncreative Writing,' and the Art of Appropriation." The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature. Eds. Joe Bray, Allison Gibbons, and Brian McHale (Routledge, forthcoming 2012).
• "'Pay More Attention': Silliman's BART and Contemporary 'Everyday Life Projects.'" Jacket 39 (2010).
• "Crisis, Possibility, and Pragmatism: Frank O'Hara's Early Journal and William James." Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics 5 (2006).
• "'Against the Speech of Friends': Amiri Baraka Sings the 'White Friend Blues.'" In Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing After the 'New York School.' Eds. Daniel Kane and Stephen Cope. (Dalkey Archive Press, 2006).
• "Auden and the New York School Poets." W. H. Auden Society Newsletter 22 (November 2001): 19-28.
• "'I Want To Be at Least as Alive as the Vulgar': Frank O'Hara's Poetry and the Cinema." In The Scene of My Selves: New Work on the New York School Poets, ed. Terence Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller (National Poetry Foundation, 2001): 93-121.
• "Frank O'Hara's Translation Game." Raritan 19.3 (Winter 2000): 144-161.
• "Verse vs. Verse" (feature article on Language poetry and the academy). Lingua Franca September 2000: 45-54.
• "'Flowers that Mock the Corse Beneath': Shelley's Adonais, Keats, and Poetic Influence." Keats-Shelley Journal 48 (1999): 90-128.

Selected Book Reviews and Other Publications

• On John Ashbery's "Street Musicians." Excerpt from Beautiful Enemies on Modern American Poetry Site.
• Review of A Natural History of Pragmatism, by Joan Richardson (Cambridge University Press). Henry James Review 30.1 (Winter 2009): 87-90.
• "Critiquing 'La Vie Quotidienne': Contemporary Approaches to the Everyday." Review of Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present, by Michael Sheringham (Oxford University Press). Contemporary Literature 49.3 (Fall 2008): 476-487.
• "'The Academy of the Future is Opening Its Doors': Women Poets and the New York School." Review of Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions, by Maggie Nelson (University of Iowa Press) Jacket 35 (2008).
• Review of Ashbery's Forms of Attention, by Andrew DuBois (U of Alabama Press). South Atlantic Review 72.4 (Fall 2007): 147-151.
• "'History Took Hold of My Throat.'" Review of The Afflicted Girls, by Nicole Cooley. Common-Place (July 2004).
• "Precision Poetry." Review of The Poems of Marianne Moore, in Newsday (Nov. 2, 2003).
• "'Antimodern' in a Time of Upheaval: Rereading African-American Culture in the Sixties." Review of Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties, by James C. Hall, in Contemporary Literature (Fall 2003): 548-558.
• Review of The Cambridge Companion to Keats, ed. Susan J. Wolfson, in Keats-Shelley Journal 51 (2002): 205-7.
• "John Ashbery." Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, ed. Eric Haralson. (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001): 479-481.
• "Marianne Moore's 'Marriage.'" Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century: 24-26.

Poems

• "Enlarging Minimal Art," Denver Quarterly (2008).
• "Pendulum," The Hat 7 (2007).
• "Caressing the Proper Noun," "The Town," Wildlife (2008).
• "The Inexpressible, Served Warm," "Postures of Belief," La Fovea (2007).
• "Late Light Allows Us To Begin," "Recognition at Spanish Moss Farm," Jumps 1 (2007).
• "The Night of the Pivot," "Heading South," "Yawning Gulf," Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art 1 (2006).
• "Poem Beginning With A Line By George W. Bush," Mississippi Review (Fall 2004).
• "It Was Always November There," Conduit (2003).
• "Some Steam in Me," Goodfoot (Winter 2003).
• "Simmering," Can We Have Our Ball Back (September 2002).
• "Letter Begun at 4:37 a.m.," "The General Happiness," "Three Changes on the Face of Things," "Open Space," CrossConnect (February 2002).
• "Wicker Frame," Gulf Coast (Winter/Spring 2002).
• "North Dakota is Everywhere," Western Humanities Review (Spring 2002).
• "Magpies Pelting the Hague," Caf Review (Fall 2000).
• "A Week Before..., "Sketch: Roof of the Metropolitan," Notre Dame Review (Summer 2000).
• "Illusions of 2:25 P. M.," North American Review (May/August 2000).
• "Stand Clear the Closing Doors," Ribot (Fall 1998).
• "Garden of Fourteen Paths," "L'Art de Vivre," Verse 14.1 (Spring 1997).
• "Your Mind Can Move Faster," Brooklyn Review 13 (Winter 1996).

AWARDS

• University Graduate Teaching Award, 2008.
• Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1999-2000.