Jorie Graham's poetry and critical reception offer a means for considering the relationship between literature and autoperformance. This essay (1) identifies three themes in criticism of Graham, (2) illustrates how these themes collectively enact a “creative double bind” between ambition and inflation in the lived experience of poetic composition, and (3) argues that attention to this double bind offers a way to perceive the force of address that makes autoperformance explicitly intersubjective rather than simply a narcissistic departure from literature.
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