Virginia Jackson

Jan 8, 2025 | publicbooks.org | Virginia Jackson |Charlotte Rosen

Women and poetry have long been confused with each other. From early warnings to women to beware of poetry’s seductions, to later addresses to women as if they were poems, to even later complaints that women read and write poetry too easily, to still later suggestions that women are historically instantiated poetic fictions, this intimate association has blurred the difference between poems and persons. But being mistaken for poetry has never made writing it easier.

Feb 1, 2024 | muse.jhu.edu | Virginia Jackson

Beauty. Truth. Neither truth nor beauty. Imagination. History. A danger to the republic. Communal utopia. Public speech. The fruit of solitude. Published privacy. The spirit of the age. Intimate alienation. Alienated intimacy. Self-expression. Self-abolition. Currency. The transcendence of capital. The voice of the people. The voice of people between whom the barriers have fallen. Nobody's voice. You know it when you see it. No one knows. Everyone can write it. No one can. Social life. How to be antisocial. You-ness.