Bettridge on O'Leary.

The estimable Joel Bettridge has published a penetrating book in the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature series entitled Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics. The fourth chapter, entitled “Case Studies,” includes a reading of Phosphorescence of Thought in relation to Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and Kenneth Goldsmith’s The Weather. Strange bedfellows! But Bettridge’s reading is unusually astute. He really gets the poem. Here’s a PDF of his reading of my poem.

Bettridge on Phosphorescence of Thought.

And if you’re interested, Avant-Garde Pieties.