Poetics

This chapter begins with consideration of the reissue of Julia Kristeva’s seminal Revolution in Poetic Language before moving on to grapple with the limits of art, poetry, and translation in relation to politics, ethics, and knowledge in the poetics scholarship of 2024. Over the course of five major topics, I review eleven books and five articles. The first three sections move through politics, rhyme, and technology. The fourth section examines the critic’s role in poetic companionship and feminist appreciation, and in the fifth and final section the subject is collaboration between art and poetry. By the conclusion, what is affirmed in this year’s work in poetics scholarship is an echoing sense of affinity, which materializes in both poetic and political likenesses and unlikenesses.