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Articles (selection):

2011

• "Meret Oppenheim's Fur Teacup," in Gastronomica, Fall 2011 (vol. 11 no. 3)
• "Ondine et Paradis,", London Review of Books, September 8, 2011 (vol. 33 no. 17)
• "Surrealist Gaming: Rules and the Rest," in From Version to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art, ed. David H. Getsy, Pennsylvania State University Press

2010

• "The Sense of a Life: Re-assessing Simone de Beauvoir," in Women: a Cultural Review, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 198-210
• Entry on "Paris" for the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, SAGE Reference, March 2010

2009

• "These Women Photographers: Scandal in Black and White," in the catalogue for the exhibit Angels of Anarchy: Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, ed. Patricia Allmer, Manchester Art Gallery/Prestel Publishing
• "The Meeting Place of Poets," "The Surrealist Impulse, "Letters at Mourning," and "Writing Picasso" in Picasso and the Allure of Language, ed. Susan Greenberg Fisher, Yale University Press
• "Unica Zürn: Beyond Bizarre" for Unica Zürn: Dark Spring (Drawing Papers 86), The Drawing Center
• "Dora et Pablo,", essay for the Alde auction house catalog "Quelque souvenirs de Dora Maar," sale held June 8, 2009 in Paris
• "Wilhelm Freddie: Againstness Wins Out," in the catalogue for the exhibit Wilhelm Freddie, at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Feb-June 2009
• "Poetry Can Be Any Damn Thing It Wants," Poetry Magazine, Manifestos issue (February 2009)
• Translation of "Sans Récompense," an essay by Jean-François Chevrier to accompany "Vides (Voids)" at the Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg), February 2009

2008

• "Why is she in tears? Mary Ann Caws unravels the sorrowful tale behind Picasso's Weeping Woman, acquired by Tate with Art Fund help twenty years ago," Art Quarterly, Focus: Beauty and Cruelty issue (Winter 2008)
• "Right There," in Painting My World: The Art of Dorothy Eisner, Antique Collector's Club, 2008

2007

• "Desnos dans le noir," in Robert Desnos: le poète libre, (ed. Marie-Claire Dumas and Carmen Vásquez), Indigo & Côté-femmes, 2007
• "Small Things in Surrealist Film," Ornament issue of .Cent Magazine, Fall-Winter 2007 (Issue 11)
• "René Char: Resistance in Every Way," for The Brooklyn Rail's poetry section, Dec 07/Jan 08 issue
• "On the Horizontal: Women Writing on Writing Women," PMLA, March 2007

2006

• "Qu'est-ce que la poésie en France peut nous dire en ce moment?" in Sens et présence du sujet poétique. La poésie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980 ed. Michael Brophy and Mary Gallagher, "Faux Titre" series, Rodopi, 2006
• "Robert Motherwell and the Modern Painter's World" in Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-44 ed. Christopher Benfy and Karen Remmler, University of Massachusetts Press, 2006
• "In the surrealist light : André Breton," in Poems of André Breton (ed. Jean-Pierre Cauvin & Caws), Black Widow Press, 200, p. 1-10
• "Picassomania" (review of Elizabeth Cowling's edition of Visiting Picasso by Roland Penrose), London Review of Books, October 19, 2006 (vol. 28 no. 20)
• article on Proust in the Memories issue of .Cent Magazine, Spring 2006 (Issue 6)
• article on Dora Maar in Fashion Quarterly, March 16
• "Masterpiece: It Started With A Madeleine," in The Wall Street Journal, February 11
• "Surrealism," in A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Blackwell

2005

• "A Woman Reading Baudelaire," in The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, ed. Rosemary Lloyd, Cambridge University Press
• Jerome Hill: Living the Arts, (biographical essay in monograph form), Jerome Foundation

2004

• "Looking: Literature's Other," for issue on The Changing Profession, commissioned article for PMLA, October 2004 (vol. 119 no. 5), pp. 1293-1314
• "Writing, Teaching, Being Two of Us: An Autofiction," in Living with a Writer, ed. Dale Salwak, Palgrave Macmillan, October 2004
• "The Construction in Question," (about Arakawa and Madeline Gins: To Not To Die) , INTERFACES: Image/Texte/Language no. 21-22 (Architecture Against Death/Architecture Contre la Mort), vol. II: From Utopia to Poesis
• "Cards on the Table" (review of Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvellous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley), London Review of Books, June 3 (vol. 26 no. 11)
• art catalogue, "Hedda Sterne: From Then to Now," Mark Borghi Fine Art (Bridgehampton, NY), May, 2004
• "Carolyn's Reading These Last Days," (response to Carolyn Heilbrun's last essay, "Rereading"), PMLA, March, 2004

2003

• "There's More To France Than a Veto Threat," The Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2003
• "Retranslation and its Surrealist Delights," Modernism and Translation, ed. Adam Piette, Edinburgh University Press, 2003
• "Bonnefoy traduit Yeats," in Yves Bonnefoy et l'Europe du XXe Siecle, ed. Micele Finck, Daniel Lancon and Mayse Staiber, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2003
• "Traduire Ostinato," Critique, Louis-René des Forêts issue, Janvier-Fevrier, 2003

2002

• "Reading Andre Breton," Context, no. 11, 2002
• catalogue essay, "Mask and Metamorphosis," Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, 2002
• catalogue essay, Tabitha Vevers, Flying Dreams, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2002
• "Bloomsbury's Mallarmé," in Australian Divagations: Mallarme and the 20th Century, ed. Jill Anderson, Peter Lang, 2002
• Selection of "Literary Manifestos," Pen America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, no. 3 "Tribes," 2002

2001

• "Tom Philips: Treating and Translating," Mosaic, 2001
• "Retranslation and its surrealist delights", Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Autumn 2001 (vol. 5, no. 2)
• "Yves Bonnefoy, Mallarmé, et Wallace Stevens," Littérature et Nation N° 25: Yves BONNEFOY et le XIXe siècle , Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2001
• "The Destiny of Robert Desnos," in Happy Birthday Robert Desnos, ed. Marie-Claire Barnet and Eric Robertson, 2001
• "Translation of/into American Poetry," "H.D," "DADA," etc., in Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001

2000

• "Hedda Sterne: the Last of the Irascibles," Art Papers Sept/Oct, 2000
• "The Modernist Art of Sarah Austin: Growing Up in Drama," catalogue essay for the exhibit Sarah G. Austin: Meditations on Modernism (curated by Kimberly Varnados), Pavel Zoubok, Inc. New York, September 2000; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, November 2000.
• "Mallarmé Here and Now," L'Esprit Créateur, special issue: "Re-casting Mallarmé/Rejouer Mallarmé," Fall 2000 (vol. XL., no. 3)
• "Suzanne Valadon:Not Just His Mummie," in Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914 , ed. Rosemary Lloyd and Brian Nelson, Monash Romance Studies 6, 2000
• "Le regard de Robert Desnos," in Robert Desnos pour l'an deux mille, ed. Marie-Claire Dumas and Katherine Conley, Gallimard, 2000
• "Samuel Beckett Translating," in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui no. 8: Poetry and Other Prose/Poésies et autres proses, Rodophi, 2000
• "Paysage et Philosophie," in De la Création Poetique: Autour de l'Oeuvre de Jacques Garelli, Encre Marine

1999

• "Joseph Cornell," in Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon: Artists of the World Throughout the Ages, 1999
• "Taking our Time with Things: Virginia Woolf's Object Lessons ,"Things in Virginia Woolf's Works (colloquy of the Société d'Etudes Woolfiennes), Fall, 1999
• "Translation of the Self: Ruskin and Wharton," Massachusetts Review, Summer 1999(vol. 40 no. 2)

1998

• "Remembering Jacqueline remembering André," for André Breton, Greenwood Press, 1998
• "Surrealism," Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1998

1997

• "French Theory and Criticism 4. Early Twentieth Century" and "Baudelaire, Charles," in Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
• "To the Lighthouse: Breaking in With the Other," Approaches to Teaching To the Lighthouse, Modern Language Association, 1997
• "Provence as a Personal Poetry", Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Autumn 1997 (vol. 1, no. 2)
• "Robert Motherwell: Working through the Night," in Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages, Abrams, 1997
• "A Note and Suggestions for Further Reading," in French Ways and Their Meaning (Edith Wharton), Berkshire House, 1997

1996

• Foreward for The Lost Steps: Les Pas Perdus, André Breton, translated by Mark Pollizotti, University of Nebraska Press, 1996 (paperback, 2010)
• "The Ethics of Translation," in On Translating French Literature and Film, (ed. Geoffrey T. Harris), Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature no. 16, 1996
• "Carrington and Lytton/ Alone Together," (Bloomsbury Heritage Series) Cecil Woolf, 1996
• William Carlos Williams and Rene Char: Two Poets Injured in the Street, William Carlos Williams Review, 1996
• "Regardez-les regarder: Tzara/Breton," in Chasse croisé: Tzara et Breton, ed. Henri Béhar, 1996
• "Poème long, poème court," in Le Sujet lyrique en question (Modernités no. 8), University of Bordeaux, 1996

1995

• "Le Geste généreux de Jacques Dupin," in Jacques Dupin, Presses de Lyon, 1995
• "Poésie et espoir," in Mélanges en honneur de Léopold Sédar Senghor (ed. Mohamed Boughali) Université Cadi Ayyad, 1995
• "Poetry and the Holocaust," Romance Notes: in honor of Edouard Morot-Sir (ed. Van Kelly), 1995
• "Toyen" and "Vanessa Bell" in Dictionary of Women Artists, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995; republished in Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, 2001

1994

• "Building Space," in Transformations in Personhood and Culture after Theory: The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics (ed. Christie Mcdonald and Gary Wihl), Penn State Press, 1994
• "Paul Auster: The Invention of Solitude," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring, 1994 (vol. 14 no. 1)
• "Against Appropriation," in Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millenium (ed. Stamos Metzidakis), Garland, 1994
• "Seeing and Saving, or, What Can a Woman Do for the Late Henry James?" Raritan, Spring, 1994
• "Ian Hamilton Finlay: Back to Poetry," in Ian Hamilton Finlay (ed. Alec Finlay), Chapman, 1994
• "Translation and the Art of Friendship, signed Mallarmé and Whistler," in the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, no. 42, 1994
• "An Erotics of Representation: Fashioning the Icon with Man Ray," in On Fashion (ed. Shari Benstock, Suzanne Ferriss), Rutgers, 1994
• "Dancing with Mallarmé and Seurat (and Loie Fuller and La Goulue)," in Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France (ed. Peter Collier and Robert Lethbridge), Yale University Press, 1994.
• "Inappropriations," in Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millennium (ed. Stamos Metzidakis), Garland, 1994
• "Bloomsbury in Cassis," (revised edition), Cecil Woolf, 1994.

1993

• "Poetry and Music, a Roundtable Discussion with Pierre Boulez" Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies, vol. 11, 1993
• "Just Enough: Jacques Dupin's Gesture," preface to Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin (ed. Paul Auster), Wake Forest University Press, 1993
• "Exquisite Essentials - on the Cadavre Exquis," catalogue essay for the exhibit "Cadavre exquis," New York Drawing Center, 1993.
• "Jacques Garelli," in Contemporary World Writers, St. James Press, 1993
• "The Prose Poem," in New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993
• "Starting Out Now Again, With Poetry," introduction to Parallels: Artists/Poets Midmarch Arts Press, 1993

1992

• "Richard Howard on Proust," The French American Review, 1992.
• "Poetry in the Margins," North Carolina Humanities Review, initial issue, Fall, 1992
• "L'oeil fixe, les yeux croisés," Pleine marge, 1992
• "Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art," reprinted in the Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (ed. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard), HarperCollins, 1992

1991

• "Joseph Cornell," "Kurt Schwitters," "Adami," in Contemporary Masterworks, St. James Press, 1991
• "L'Invention de l'amour/l'amour de l'invention," in Inventions (ed. Christie McDonald), collection of essays in Etudes françaises, Montreal, vol. 26 no. 3, 1991
• "Le Moi dans le Surrealisme," publications of the French Institute, Bonn, 1991
• "Selections from the Diary of Joseph Cornell" (editor), Arts Magazine April, 1991.
• "Ruskin's Madness and Ours," in Victorian Literature and Culture (ed. John Maynard and Adrienne Munich), AMS Press, 1991.
• "Cognitive Poetics and Passionate Reading in Ruskin and Hopkins," Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate, no.3, 1991
• "Personal Criticism and the Margins of Poetry," in Visions of the Other/Visions de l'autre , ed. Margaret R. Higonnet and Sumie Jones, in the Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, 1991

1990

• "Edmond Jabès: Exile and Presence," Dalhousie French Studies, Fall-Winter 1990
• "Joseph Cornell: l'invention de la boîte surréaliste," Études françaises vol. 26 no. 3, 1990
• "Under-Reading at Noon, 'Midi,' with Leconte de Lisle," in Nineteenth Century French Poetry (ed. Christopher Prendergast), Cambridge University Press, 1990.
• "Against Completion: Ruskin's Drama of Dream, Latensss and Loss," in Sex and Death in Victorian Literature (ed. Regina Barreca), Macmillan, 1990

1989

• "Automatic Writing is Born," New York Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 4, 1989
• "Narrative Voice and Second Reading: Relation and Response," Poetics Today, Winter, l989
• "Beholding Nothing in Mallarmé," Lit, Vol. 1, 1989
• "Presidential Note," American Comparative Literature Association Newsletter, winter, 1989
• "The Place of Poetry, the Poetry of Place," A New History of French Literature, (ed. Denis Hollier), Cambridge University Press, 1989
• "Livre des marges, Livre du partage : méditation sur deux textes d'Edmond Jabès," in Ecrire le livre autour d'Edmond Jabès, Editions de la Montagne, 1989

1988

• "Truth-Telling and the Fictions of Humor," in Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy (ed. Regina Barreca), Gordon and Breach, 1988
• "Artful Mosaic: Proust Recalled with a Kierkegaardian Twist," Style, Fall 1988 (vol. 22 no. 3)
• "Le genre dialogué: Blaise Cendrars et 'l'autre," Sud, 1988.
• "Strong-Line Poetry: Ashbery's Dark Edging and the Lines of Self," in The Line in Post-Modern Poetry (ed. Robert Frank and Henry Sayre), University of Illinois Press, 1988

1986

• "Literal or Liberal: Translating Perception," Critical Inquiry, vol. 13 no. 1 (Autumn 1986), pp. 49-63
• "Ladies Shot and Painted," in The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, (ed. Susan Suleiman), Harvard University Press, 1986
• "Gestures Toward the Self: Representing the Body in Modernism: Cloaking, Re-Membering, and the Elliptical Effect," in Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives, (ed. Monique Chefdor, Ricardo Quinones, and Albert Wachtel), University of Illinois Press, 1986
• "The Conception of Engendering / The Erotics of Editing," in The Poetics of Gender, (ed. Nancy K. Miller), Columbia University Press, 1986

1985 and earlier

• "On Not Being a Stranger," in Approaches to Teaching Camus's The Plague (ed. by Steven G. Kellman), Modern Language Association of America, 1985, p.117 ff
• "A Double Allegiance," in The Road Retaken: Women Reenter the Academy (ed. by Irene Thompson and Audrey Roberts), Modern Language Association of America, 1985, p.32 ff
• "Winging It, or Catching Up with Kierkegaard and Some Swans," Yale French Studies, no. 66 (1984), pp. 83-90
• "The Self-Defining Prose Poem: On Its Edge," in The Prose Poem in France (co-ed. with Hermine Riffaterre), Columbia University Press, 1983, pp.180-197
• "A Double Reading by Design: Breughel, Auden, and Williams,", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Spring 1983 (vol. 41 no. 3), p. 323 ff
• "Queneau, Raymond," in Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (ed. Jean-Albert Bédé and William B. Edgerton), Columbia University Press, 1980, pp. 653-654.
• "Whatever is Fitting in a Text (On Being Buttoned in a Scene)," in Intertextuality: New Perspectives in Criticism (ed. Jeanine Parisier Plottel and Hanna Charney), New York Literary Forum, 1978, pp. 275-280.
• "Robert Desnos and the Flasks of Night," Yale French Studies, no. 50 (1974), pp. 108-19
• "Péret: Plausible Surrealist," Yale French Studies, May 1964 (no. 31), pp. 105-111

Journals Edited

• Dada/Surrealism (annual; 1972 - 1992), Queens College Press followed by University of Iowa; co-editor with Rudolf E. Kuenzli

Book Reviews

• Art Journal
• French Review
• French Studies
• The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• London Review of Books
• The Romanic Review

Other

• Contributor to "Tower Two," a collective poem about 9/11 for The People's Poetry Gathering.

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