Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff
Born
Gabriele Schüller Mintz

(1931-09-28)September 28, 1931
Vienna, Austria
DiedMarch 24, 2024(2024-03-24) (aged 92)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Spouse
Joseph K. Perloff
(m. 1953; died 2014)
Children2, including Carey Perloff
Academic background
Education
Academic work
Institutions
Main interestsModern poetry and poetics
Notable worksRadical 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]

  1. ^ Risen, Clay (March 26, 2024). "Marjorie Perloff, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Poetry, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved March 26, 2024.
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