Marjorie Perloff | |
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| Born | Gabriele Schüller Mintz September 28, 1931 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | March 24, 2024 (aged 92) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Joseph K. Perloff
(m. 1953; died 2014) |
| Children | 2, including Carey Perloff |
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| Education | |
| Academic work | |
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| Main interests | Modern poetry and poetics |
| Notable works | Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media
"Private Notebooks: 1914–1916" "Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century" |
Marjorie Perloff[needs IPA] (born Gabriele Mintz; September 28, 1931 – March 24, 2024) was an Austrian-born American poetry scholar and critic, known for her study of avant-garde poetry.[1]
Perloff was a professor at Catholic University, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Southern California and Stanford University.[2][3]
She wrote books about W. B. Yeats, Robert Lowell, and Frank O'Hara and promoted poetry that normally was not discussed in the United States, such as works by Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Brazilian poetry. Perloff was widely considered the most influential critic of experimental poetry. She coined the term "unoriginal genius" to reflect the desire of some contemporary poets to create poetry by using other people's words and constraint-based practices rather than inspiration or other personal sources.[4][5]
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