{"id":786,"date":"2012-04-11T22:55:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T22:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelwagstaff.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/11\/at-long-last-7\/"},"modified":"2016-11-02T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T21:01:16","slug":"at-long-last-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/at-long-last-7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"At Long Last…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an approved dissertation proposal! What’s its title, you ask? Get ready, because it’s really sexy. “Thinking with the things as they exist\u201d: Ecocriticism and Objectivist Poetics.<\/em> Yeah. A thrilling tour through what I’m calling an “Objectivist” poetics (the writing of George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, and maybe, just maybe, a little Carl Rakosi!!!), ecocriticism, phenomenology, with a dash of animal-human relations and a pinch or two of what the kids are calling speculative materialism or OOO (Object-Oriented Ontology–not that so elegant intelligent Shakespehearean rag T.S. Eliot was on about in “The Wasteland”–that was O O O O, of course.) Hopefully you’ll be able to read it within the next couple of years.<\/p>\n

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I have an approved dissertation proposal! What’s its title, you ask? Get ready, because it’s really sexy. “Thinking with the things as they exist\u201d: Ecocriticism and Objectivist Poetics. Yeah. A thrilling tour through what I’m calling an “Objectivist” poetics (the writing of George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, Basil Bunting, William Carlos Williams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: \"At Long Last...\" http:\/\/wp.me\/p1vqMH-cG","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[17,89,6,8],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-objectivists","tag-literature","tag-objectivists","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/img_1970-e1431529356879.jpg?resize=600%2C400&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Steel Wagstaff","author_link":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/author\/steel\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/img_1970-e1431529356879.jpg?fit=720%2C477&ssl=1","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/img_1970-e1431529356879.jpg?resize=600%2C477&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd6z5D-cG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4742,"url":"https:\/\/steelwagstaff.info\/wordpress\/three-versions-of-an-objectivist-poetics\/","url_meta":{"origin":786,"position":0},"title":"Three versions of an Objectivist Poetics","author":"Steel Wagstaff","date":"August 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Grandmother, have you ever looked a donkey in the eyes?\" \"I may have done, my dear boy, I don't remember.\" \"In that case you haven't, because otherwise you'd certainly remember. 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