Piers in paperback
Publication update! The promised paperback printing of my edition of William Langland s Piers Plowman A is set to appear in September. It retails for $35.
Eric Weiskott
writer, teacher, literary historian
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new book review: Prageeta Sharma
I have a review of Prageeta Sharma s latest poetry book, Onement Won, up at Chicago Review online.
Unheard Melodies
My new monograph, Unheard Melodies: Apophatic Poetics and Literary Reading, is published by Fordham University Press. It s slated to be published late this calendar year or at the very beginning of 2027. from the inside flap: Unheard Melodies is an essay in comparative poetics. The book draws together readings of fourteenth- and twenty-first-century poetry, from Chaucer Continue reading Unheard…
first review of Cycle of Dreams
Poet Matthew Weitman s review of Cycle of Dreams with Eliot Weinberger s The Life of Tu Fu appears over at Asymptote: Rather than translate [Piers Plowman] line for line, word for word, phrase for phrase, insofar as this is ever possible, Weiskott translates exploitation for exploitation, vice for vice, and virtue for virtue. . . If Continue reading first review of Cycle of Dreams
note on the election
Eight years later, here we are again. I have been opening up space in my classes for students to reflect on the election result, which follows a uniquely tumultuous election cycle marked by vitriolic rhetoric from the Republican candidate: a rhetoric that asks us to despise and fear our neighbors. The Democrats, meanwhile, seemed short Continue reading note on the election