Marjorie Gabrielle Perloff

Specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and poetics, primarily British and American but also French, German, and Brazilian. She is especially interested in the avant-garde, both of the early century and today, in the verbal and visual arts and has written extensively on issues of poetry/painting, poetry/philosophy, for example Wittgenstein's importance for poetics, as well as issues of literary historiography, periodization, exile, and poetry translation from Goethe and Heine to the present. Most recent book, EDGE OF IRONY (Chicago 2016)  is on Austrian Modernism between the two World Wars and carries on work of earlier VIENNA PARADOX, a cultural memoir of my own emigration to the U.S. as a refugee from Hitler.   Her collected book reviews from 1969-2017 have just been published in two volumes by New Mexico Press under the title CIRLING THE CANON. She is currently translating and editing Wittgenstein's "Secret Noteobooks" from WW I for Liveright/Norton.