Over more than a decade, from 2005 to 2019, I published twenty-four essays on poetry and poetics. Many of them are behind a paywall. The essays available here are representative of my commitment as a critic, which was to show how poetry contributes to the therapeutic project of culture broadly understood — thinking about how to help people live more meaningfully and more humanely.

Ten of the essays are open-access and available on this site. The bibliography is below:

“Containing the Jeremiad: Understanding Paradigms of Anxiety in Global Climate Change Experience.” Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning 24 (2019): 52-65.

“Jeffers’ Axe: The Instability of Nonviolence.” Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 24.1 (2019): 1-14.

“Cosmopolitanism and Internal Difference: The Enduring Strangeness of My Life.” Consciousness, Literature and the Arts 19.1 (2018).

“The Terror of Robert Frost.” American Studies 62.3 (2017): 437-447.

“The Taboo of Experience.” Pennsylvania Literary Journal 8.1 (2016): 49-60.

“The Implied Reader and Depressive Experience in Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris.” American Studies 60.3 (2015): 201-213.

“The Spiritual Work of Art in the Poetry of Robert Duncan.” Polish Journal for American Studies 9 (2015): 75-96.

“Wallace Stevens and Racial Melancholy.” College Literature 42.2 (2015): 385-395.

“Lyrics as Gifts: Relational Freedom in Whitman, Hughes and Dylan.” Americana: E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 10.2 (2014).

“Two Against Freud: Pinsky’s ‘Essay on Psychiatrists’ in a Philosophical Context.” American Imago 71.4 (2014): 445-458.

“Environmental Crisis and Transitional Phenomena: Brenda Hillman’s Ecopoetic Playing.” European Journal of Ecopsychology 5 (2014): 39-53.

“Americans and Climate Change: Transnationalism and Reflection in Environmental Writing.” European Journal of American Studies 9.2 (2014): 1-12.

“The Psychological Oppen: Reality and a Modernist Male.” Psychoanalysis in Context. Ed. Alvin Henry. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 125-137.

“Ecocritical Reading and Robert Duncan’s Bending the Bow.” The Journal of Ecocriticism 4.1 (2012): 31-45.

“Blessing and Cursing: Self-object Needs and Politics in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich.” Journal of Poetry Therapy 24.4 (2011): 223-37.

“Reassessing Whitman’s Hegelian Affinities.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 29.1 (2011): 19-31.

“Ambivalent Posthumanism: A Few of Stevens’ Animals.” Wallace Stevens Journal 34.2 (2010): 209-221.

“Fatherhood in Confessional Poetry: One Facet of Men’s Autobiographical Writing.” College Literature 36.4 (2009): 25-45.

“A Thought on the Prudishness of Marianne Moore.” Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America. Eds. Kornelia Freitag and Katharina Vester. Muenster: LIT Verlag, 2008. 285-8.

“Critical Portraits: Working-Class Corporeality in Williams’ Poems of the 1930s.” William Carlos Williams Review 27.2 (2007): 119-136.

“Masculine Fecundity and ‘Overinclusiveness’: Imagery of Pregnancy in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry.” Wallace Stevens Journal 31.1 (2007): 59-72.

“’Racial’ Melancholy in the Poetry of Vijay Seshadri.” America and the Orient. Ed. Heike Schaefer. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2006. 167-87.

“H.D.’s Helen in Egypt: Aging and the Unconscious.” Journal of Modern Literature 28.4 (2005): 91-109.

“Also F.H. Bradley: A Hegelian Reading of T.S. Eliot’s Negativity.” Cercles 12 (2005): 26-49.