Background
Susan Vanderborg was born on April 7, 1967, in New York, United States.
Susan Vanderborg
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Yale University, where Susan Vanderborg received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Stanford University, where Susan Vanderborg received her Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
Yale University, where Susan Vanderborg received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, United States
Stanford University, where Susan Vanderborg received her Doctor of Philosophy degree.
(Since 1950, Vanderborg notes, American avant-garde poetry...)
Since 1950, Vanderborg notes, American avant-garde poetry has been dominated by two seemingly contradictory impulses: a disruption of language as transparent communication and a need to contextualize the poets' word games for readers. In this book, Vanderborg examines both the innovations and the limitations of paratexts in redefining the poet's community, using the writing of six poets who represent different stages in the evolution of this form: Charles Olson, Jack Spicer, Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Lorenzo Thomas, and Johanna Drucker.
https://www.amazon.com/Paratextual-Communities-American-Avant-Garde-Poetry/dp/0809323230
2001
Susan Vanderborg was born on April 7, 1967, in New York, United States.
Susan Vanderborg began her studies at Yale University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989. Then she studied at Stanford University and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English and American literature in 1996.
Susan Vanderborg teaches at the University of South Carolina. Her areas of specialization include postmodern American poetry, artists' books, experimental narrative, and science fiction. She joined the university in 1996 as an assistant professor of the English department becoming an associate professor of English language and literature in 2002.
Besides her teaching career, Vanderborg is actively engaged in writing. Her book, Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950, was published in 2001. It focuses on the post-World War II American avant-garde, examining the complementary relation between difficult, disjunctive poems and their paratexts - the notes, creative essays, and source documents that help to contextualize the poetry for readers.
In this study, Vanderborg astutely reconfigures (and sometimes dramatically reverses) the relation between primary and secondary texts in three generations of American avant-garde poets. By exploring the paratexts that these poets produced to explain their own central texts, she reveals how each poet's lexical and semantic distortions can be understood as strategies to create a new sense of poetic community. And in the process, she also provides a splendid introduction to the pleasures, the complexities, and the provocations of the postmodern avant-garde poem.
Susan is also a contributor to periodicals, including Modern Language Quarterly, Sagetrieb, Talisman, and How2.
Susan Vanderborg is an outstanding educator particularly known as an associate professor of English language and literature at the University of South Carolina. Her book, Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950, is considered to be a comprehensive and significant guide to the research of paratexts.
(Since 1950, Vanderborg notes, American avant-garde poetry...)
2001Vanderborg is a member of the Modern Language Association of America.
