The University of Iowa Department of English
Adalaide "Dee" Morris

Books in Process

How To Live bookcover
Sound States bookcover

New Media Poetics: Contexts, technotexts, and theories. MIT Press, June 2006. A collection of 13 essays, co-edited with Thom Swiss, growing out of a conference on digital poetics held October 10-13, 2002, at the University of Iowa.

Published Books

How to Live. What to Do: H.D.’s Cultural Poetics. University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. A collection of essays on the interplay between radio, tape, and loudspeaker technologies and modern and postmodern poetry and fiction, including contributions by Michael Davidson, Katherine Hayles, Marjorie Perloff, Jed Rasula, Garrett Stewart, & others, published with audio CD. Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina, 1998. Recipient of the boxed review in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 February 1998, p. 24.

Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers. Edited with Jane Cooper, Gwen Head, and Marcia Southwick. New York: Macmillan, 1982.

Wallace Stevens: Imagination and Faith. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1974.

Edited Journal Issues

Contemporary American Poetries, The Iowa Review , 26.2 (Summer 1996): 212 pages. Co-edited with David Hamilton and Cherry Muhanji. I solicited and selected the contributions representing contemporary innovative poetics.

H.D. centennial issue, The Iowa Review 16.3 (Fall1986): 303 pages.

Iowa Review double issue on contemporary women’s writing. Fall 1981.

Selected Essays, Articles, & Creative Work

“‘Leaping Out of One’s Mind’: Syntactical Jumps in the Writings of Ezra Pound and Leslie Scalapino.” HOW2. Spring 2002

“Angles of Incidence / Angels of Dust: Operatic Tilt in the Poetics of H.D. and Nathaniel Mackey.” No Rule of Procedure: H.D. and Poets After, ed. Donna Hollenberg. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000. Rpt. in Callaloo, special issue on Nathaniel Mackey, 23.2 (Spring 2000): 749-64.

“Sound States,” introductory methodological essay, Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. Durham & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 1-14.

“Sound Technologies and the Modernist Epic: H.D. on the Air,” Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. Durham & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 32-55.

“Bibliography of Materials on Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies. Durham & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. 317-38.

“A Perspective on Perspectives,” ADE Bulletin (Fall 1995).

“Leaders, Followers, Oppositional Intellectuals, and the PhD Job Market,” ADE Bulletin 109 (Winter 1994): 19-22.

“Declensions,” The American Voice, No. 31 (Summer 1993): 108-119. Nominated for 1994 Pushcart Prize.

“Surviving the Graduate Curriculum,” ADE Bulletin 103 (Winter 1992): 26-30. Rpt. in Concerns 22.3 (Fall 1992): 22-31.

“First Persons Plural: Storytellers in Contemporary Feminist Fiction,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 11.1 (Spring 1992): 11-29.

“H.D.,” major entry in Modern American Women Writers. Ed. Elaine Showalter, Lea Baechler, and A. Walton Litz. New York: Scribners, 1991. 103-21.

“Science and the Mythopoeic Mind: The Case of H.D.” Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. Ed. N. Katherine Hayles. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991. 195-220.

“Cuttings.” Sonora Review 20 (Winter 1991) 10-20 (co-winner of first prize in nonfiction essay contest). Also published in Lesbians at Midlife: The Creative Transition. Ed. Barbara Sang, Joyce Warshow, and Adrienne J. Smith. San Francisco: Spinsters Inc., 1991. 164-72.

“Signaling: Feminism, Politics, and Mysticism in H.D.’s War Trilogy,” Sagetrieb 9 (Winter 1990): 121-33.

“A Relay of Power and of Peace: H.D. and the Spirit of the Gift.” Contemporary Literature 27 (1986): 493-524. Rpt. in Signets: Reading H.D. Ed. Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 52-82.

“Step-by-Step Parenting,” with Wendy Deutelbaum and Viivi-Ann Shirley. Women and Stepfamilies: Voices of Anger and Love. Ed. Nan Bauer Maglin and Nancy Schneidewind. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1989. 293-309.

“Autobiography and Prophecy: H.D.’s The Gift.” H.D.: Woman and Poet. Ed. Michael King. Orono: National Poetry Foundation and University of Maine at Orono, 1986. 227-36.

“Dick, Jane, and American Literature: Fighting with Canons.” College English 47 (1985): 467-81. Rpt. in The Course of Ideas (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1990) and Critical Thinking & Writing in the Disciplines, ed. Mary E. McGann (New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1992).

“The Concept of Projection: H.D.’s Visionary Powers.” Contemporary Literature 25 (1984): 411-36. Rpt. in Signets: Reading H.D. Ed. Susan Stanford Friedman and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991.

“‘The Love of Thee--a Prism Be’: Men and Women in the Love Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. Ed. Suzanne Juhasz. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983. 98-113.

“Reading H.D.’s ‘Helios and Athene.’” The Iowa Review 12 (1982): 155-63.

“‘Two Sisters Have I’: Emily Dickinson’s Vinnie & Susan.” Massachusetts Review 22 (1981): 323-32. Rpt. in The Sister Bond: A Feminist View. Ed. Toni A. H. McNaron. New York: Pergamon, 1985. 81-89.

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