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Overview

Davidson has written eight books of poetry as well as numerous historical, cultural and critical works. He has been affiliated with the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) since 1974 and as a professor of American literature since 1988 with areas of study and research in Modern Poetry, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Disability Studies. The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ... a poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which brought him to prominence. ... Cultural studies is an academic discipline popular among a diverse group of scholars. ... Gender studies is a theoretical work in the social sciences or humanities that focuses on issues of sex and gender in language and society, and often addresses related issues including racial and ethnic oppression, postcolonial societies, and globalization. ... Disability studies is an interdisciplinary field of study, which is focused on the contributions, experiences, history, and culture of people with disabilities. ...

Davidson edited George Oppen: New Collected Poems, which appeared in 2002.

Davidson served as the first curator of the Mandeville Department of Special Collections (UCSD) where the George Oppen papers are stored. The Archive for New Poetry is now a major campus, community and international resource for studying post-1945 English-language poetry, and is one of the four largest American poetry collections in the U.S. . The archive contains holdings that emphasize the ongoing “countertradition” in recent American writing – particularly the Objectivist poets, the Black Mountain poets, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, and the Language School ^[1] Image File history File links Oppen_new_collected. ... Image File history File links Oppen_new_collected. ... George Oppen, a picture now used as the cover for the recently published Selected Poems George Oppen (April 24, 1908 - July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. ... William Carlos Williams, who was the only poet to be published as both an Objectivist and an Imagist The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. ... The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called the Projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College. ... The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centred around that city and which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetic avant-garde. ... The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters and musicians active in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in New York City. ... A language school is where one can learn a foreign language. ...

Davidson, who recently became hearing impaired, has written extensively on disability issues, most recently "Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance," in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, "Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body," GLQ 9:1-2 (2003), and "Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation," in Beyond the Boundary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context. His essays on disability are forthcoming in Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (University of Michigan).^[2] This article is about hearing impairment in the pathological sense. ...

In addition to being a widely published poet and poetry editor (he is represented in the 2004 edition of Best American Poetry by a poem entitled "Bad Modernism"), Davidson is known for insightful literary criticism, his work in disability studies, and for the meticulous editing of the monumental George Oppen: New Collected Poems: this in which Davidson shares in the integrity of his subject.

Selected publications

Poetry

• The Prose of Fact. Berkeley: The Figures, 1981
• The Landing of Rochambeau. Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck, 1985
• Post Hoc. Bolinas, Calif.: Avenue B, 1990
• The Arcades. O Books, Fall 1998
• editor of George Oppen: New Collected Poems. New York: New Directions, 2002

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Prose

• Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (with Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten). San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991.
• The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
• Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. U of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (University of Michigan, forthcoming)

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Articles

• "Notes beyond the Notes: Wallace Stevens and Contemporary Poetics," Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism, ed. Albert Gelpi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
• "Dismantling 'Mantis:' Reification and Objectivist Poetics," American Literary History, 3.3 (Fall 1991): 521-541.
• "Marginality in the Margins: Robert Duncan's Textual Politics," Contemporary Literature, 33.2 (Summer 1992): 275-301.
• "'When the world strips down and rouges up:' Redressing Whitman," Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, ed. Betsy Erkkila. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• "The Lady from Shanghai: California Orientalism and 'guys like us,'" Western American Literature (Winter 2001).
• "Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation." Beyond the Boundary: American Identity and Multiculturalism. Ed. Tim Powelll. New Brunswick: Rutgers U Press, 1999. 39-60.
• "Hearing Things: The Scandal of Voice in Deaf Performance," Enabling the Humanities: A Disability Studies Sourcebook, eds. Sharon Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Modern Language Association, 2001.

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Notes

1. ^ http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/events/LibraryDavidson.asp
2. ^ http://cci.berkeley.edu/news/speakers.html

External links

• Re-siting poetry through American Sign Language ASL
• Davidson on collecting the poems of George Oppen
• Davidson on Louis Zukofsky's "Mantis"
• Discourse in Poetry: Bakhtin and Extensions of the Dialogical pdf-reprint of this article & Answering Motion, both of these Davidson pieces as they appeared in Code of Signals (ed. Michael Palmer, 1983). Available again in e-book at Duration Press's out-of-print-archive.

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