Journal
About Paiduema
Paideuma is an annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal with a focus on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Issues often include a symposium on a particular theme, a dossier of archival materials, and essays on poetics.
Current Issue
Volume 49 / 2022 [2024]
Benjamin Friedlander, Preface
Essays
Seo-Young Chu, “Describing Dictee”
Adra Raine, “‘in the folds, in the lattice’: Resonance Over Resolution in Nathaniel Mackey and Ed Roberson’s Post-1968 Poetics”
Adam Katz, “Robert Duncan as Platonist”
Charles Altieri, “The Concept of Experience as Grounding for The Waste Land”
Jonathan Ullyot, “Ezra Pound’s Jungle Book and the Canto 39 Typescripts”
Dove Sta Memoria
Barry Ahearn, “Paul Zukofsky (1943-2017): A Literary Memoir”
Jim Brodey, Electrified Prose
Edited by Nick Sturm
Nick Sturm, “The Human Shredder: An Introduction”
Work by Jim Brodey
“Cotton-Mouth Whirlpool (episodes from a life)”
Reviews and Other Prose:
Review of Camouflage: 22 Poems by John Perreault
Review of Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
from “THE HORRIBLE, part one, MAH HEART”
“Crawdaddy!, Mojo Navigator Publish Perceptive Rock Criticism”
“First Evening in San Francisco”
“Ginsberg in His Twenties: A Thrilling Precision,” Review of The Gates of Wrath by Allen Ginsberg
Review of Gentle Subsidy by Steve Carey
Review of Nothing For You by Ted Berrigan
Review of Chances Are Few by Lorenzo Thomas
Review of Dabble (Poems 1966-1980) by John Godfrey
“Kerouac Revisited”
“Greg Irons”
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“Renegade from Usual Happiness: A Previously Unpublished Interview with Jim Brodey by Vincent Katz, recorded 7/16/1983”
History
Paideuma was founded in 1971 by University of Maine English Professor Carroll F. Terrell. Its original mission was to focus on Ezra Pound’s life and work. The word “Paideuma” is a Poundian coinage, adapted from German scholar and ethnologist Leo Frobenius, meaning “the tangle or complex of the inrooted ideas of any period.” read more
Staff
Editor: Benjamin Friedlander
Editorial Assistant: April Messier
Production Manager: Betsy Graves Rose
