Love Language by Reese Morrison6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The article explores the apostrophe, and in particular Reece's "addresses" as the hailing of the ephemeral and the lost and inanimate of history as if they might understand, and as a form of being-with in which there is a wildly constructed (because fictitious) intimacy that retains, nevertheless, great distances, forever untraversable. Author(s): Eileen Joy (see profile) Date: 2011 Group(s): Cultural Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Philosophy, Poetics and Poetry Subject(s): Poetics, Poetry Item Type: Article Tag(s): Poetics and poetry, Literary criticism Permanent URL: Abstract: An commentary upon the poet Spencer Reese, and more specifically, upon Reece's "addresses" in his book "The Clerk's Tale: Poems" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004) in light of Barbara Johnson's work on the "apostrophe" in her book chapter "Toys R Us," in her book "Persons and Things" (Harvard University Press, 2008), and also in light of Graham Harman's object-oriented ontology and Jane Bennett's vibrant materialism. ![]()
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