John Wieners (1934-2002)

A selective list of online literary criticism for poet John Wieners, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Pages

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Literary criticism

Moxley, Jennifer. "Rimbaud’s Foolish Virgin, Wieners’s 'Feminine Soliloquy,' and the Metaphorical Resistance of the Lyric Body." "John Wieners’s life of sexual and narcotic excess has sometimes been read as a tragic enactment of Arthur Rimbaud’s directives to the poet." Orig. in Talisman No. 34, Wntr/Spring 2007

Temple, John. "Haven of the Heart: The Poetry of John Wieners." Very extended essay on Wieners, in Jacket Magazine 32, Oct. 2007

Ward, Geoff. Obituary for John Wieners in Independent, The (London), Mar 15, 2002

Wilkinson, John. The Lyric Touch: Essays on the Poetry of Excess (Salt Publishing, 2007). Publisher's blurb. Covers British and American poetry of the late twentieth century, poetics, includes essays on J.H. Prynne, John James, Tom Raworth, Barry MacSweeney and Denise Riley, an account of the formation of the 'Cambridge School' and an introduction to the American lyric poet John Wieners. Sample chapter

"Boston College Alum John Wieners" in Boston College Magazine, Fall 2000

On the papers of John Wieners at the U of Conn.

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