James Maynard PhD

Publications

Books

• Soundings in Context: Poetry’s Embodiments. Ed. Judith Goldman and James Maynard. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2024.
• Duncan, Robert. No Hierarchy of the Lovely: Ten Uncollected Essays and Other Prose 1939-1981. Ed. James Maynard. Chicago: Three Count Pour, 2020.
• Robert Duncan and the Pragmatist Sublime.Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
• Poetry in the Making: A Bibliography of Publications by Graduate Students in the Poetics Program, University at Buffalo, 1991-2016. Buffalo, NY: The Poetry Collection, 2016. Reprint 2017. [Among the Neighbors chapbook #1]
• Such Conjunctions: Robert Duncan, Jess, and Alberto de Lacerda. Ed. Luis Amorim de Sousa, Mary Porter de Sousa, and James Maynard. Buffalo: BlazeVOX Books, 2014.
• Robert Duncan: Collected Essays and Other Prose. Ed. James Maynard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
• (Re:)Working the Ground: Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan. Ed. James Maynard. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection. Ed. James Maynard. Buffalo: The Poetry Collection, 2009.
• Duncan, Robert. Ground Work: Before the War / In the Dark. Ed. Robert J. Bertholf and James Maynard. Intro. Michael Palmer. New York: New Directions, 2006.

Contributions to Books (selected)

• “Robert Duncan, ‘On Reading Marianne Moore’: An Introduction.” Marianne Moore and the Archives: From Material Culture to the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jeff W. Westover. Clemson, SC: Clemson University Press, 2024. 189-194.
• “Unpacking Duncan’s Books: Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan.” Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books. Ed. Jason Camlot and J. A. Weingarten. Waterloo, ON, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022. 151-166.
• “The Origins of the University at Buffalo James Joyce Collection.” One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Ed. Colm Tóibín. New York and University Park, PA: The Morgan Library & Museum and The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. 113-121.
• “The Poetics Program and the Poetry Collection, 2001 to Present (A Personal History).” At Buffalo: The Invention of a New American Poetry. Ed. Sean Pears. Lake Forest, IL: Lake Forest College Press, 2020. 201-206.
• “Poetry in the Making: A Bibliography of Publications by Graduate Students in the Poetics Program, University at Buffalo, 1991-2016.” At Buffalo: The Invention of a New American Poetry. Ed. Sean Pears. Lake Forest, IL: Lake Forest College Press, 2020. 229-249.
• Preface. Poetry & Poetics 1980-2020. By Gail Sher. Night Crane Press, 2020. xi-xiv.
• “Poetry in the Making: A Bibliography of Publications by Graduate Students in the Poetics Program, 1991-2016.” Poetics and Precarity. The University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018. 169-203.
• “‘Some Pleasing Weird Collages’: An Archival Introduction to Helen Adam’s Collage Forms.” The Collages of Helen Adam. Ed. Alison Fraser. Further Other Book Works/Cuneiform Press, 2017. 9-23.
• “Some Notes on Jonathan Williams and Robert Duncan.” Jonathan Williams: The Lord of Orchards. Ed. Jeffery Beam and Richard Owens. Westport, CT: Prospecta Books, 2017. 131-33.
• Foreword: “Remembering Robert J. Bertholf (1940–2016).” Theodore Enslin: A Checklist. By Robert J. Bertholf. Hillsborough, NC: Alexander Rare Books, 2017.
• Foreword. Launched in Context: Seven Essays on the Archive. Buffalo, NY: University at Buffalo Poetics Program, 2016. 5.
• "Poetry as Primary Community: Duncan, Spicer, Blaser, McClure, Olson, Levertov, and Creeley." An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle." Ed. Michael Duncan and Christopher Wagstaff. Portland, OR: Pomegranate, 2013. 131-148.
• "Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book." Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose. Ed. Annette Debo and Lara Vetter. New York: Modern Language Assocation, 2011. 148-152.
• “‘To Speak Forth’: An Imaginary Dialogue with Myung Mi Kim.” Building is a Process / Light Is an Element: Essays and Excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Ed. Michael Cross and Andrew Rippeon. Buffalo: P-Queue / Queue Books, 2008. 43-47.

Journal Articles (selected)

• “על רוברט דנקן – שיחה עם ×’'יימס מיינרד” [“On Robert Duncan – A Conversation with James Maynard”]. דְּחָק - כתב עת לספרות טובה [Dehak: A Journal for Good Literature] 15 (December 2022): 86-92.
• “Poetry in Buffalo: Some Thoughts on Print Community.” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 46 (2019 [2021]): 283-288.
• Collis, Stephen, Xavier Kalck, James Maynard, and Clément Oudart, eds. “Eight Centennial Essays on Robert Duncan.” Blazing Stadium 8 (2021).
•  “Selected Bibliography of Recent Duncan-Related Publications 2000-2020.” In “Robert Duncan’s Legacies: A Centennial Celebration.” Sillages critiques 29 (2020).
• Collis, Stephen, Xavier Kalck, James Maynard, and Clément Oudart, eds. “Robert Duncan’s Legacies: A Centennial Celebration.” Sillages critiques 29 (2020).
• “An Interview with James Maynard.” The Robert Frost Review 28 (Fall 2018): 58-61.
• Duncan, Robert. “Black Mountain College.” Introduced and edited by James Maynard. Appalachian Journal 44.3-4/45.1-2 (2017/2018): 266-270.
• "The Collages of Helen Adam (Part II)." January 13, 2016. Full Stop.
• "Acts of Curation: The Curating of Poetry & The Poetics of Curating." Ed. James Maynard. With Michael Basinski, Marie Elia, Nancy Kuhl, James Maynard, and Edric Mesmer. The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections 1.1 (Fall 2015).
• "A Note on the William Carlos Williams Collection at the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York." William Carlos Williams Review 30.1-2 (Spring/Fall 2013): 205-207.
• "Curators' Choice." Mimeo Mimeo 8 (Spring 2013): 105-112.
• James Maynard, interviewed by Edric Mesmer. Yellow Field 2 (Spring 2011): 46-49.
• "Some Notes on Jonathan Williams and Robert Duncan." Jacket 28 (Late 2009).
• “Epitaph to Experimental Review: Robert Duncan’s Little Magazines 1938-1941.” Mimeo Mimeo 2 (Autumn 2008): 13-24.
• "'Relationship, Place, and Company': A Conversation with Robert Creeley." JAST: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 27 (Spring 2008): 141-181.
• “Extending the Field: Robert Duncan and Alfred North Whitehead.” Process Studies 36.1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 68-88.
• Robert Duncan. “Ten Poems.” Transcribed and ed. by Robert J. Bertholf and James Maynard. Jacket 28 (October 2005).
• Robert Duncan. “Ten Letters.” Transcribed and ed. by Robert J. Bertholf and James Maynard. Jacket 28 (October 2005).
• Robert Duncan. “Ten Prose Pieces.” Transcribed and ed. by Robert J. Bertholf and James Maynard. Jacket 28 (October 2005).
• Robert Duncan. “From Robert Duncan’s Notebooks: On Denise Levertov.” Transcribed and ed. by Robert J. Bertholf and James Maynard. Jacket 28 (October 2005).
• “‘I Find / I Found / Myself / and Nothing / More Than That’: Textuality, Visuality, and the Production of Subjectivity in Tom Phillips’A Humument.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 36.1 (Spring 2003): 82-98.

Book Reviews (selected)

• "Reconsidering Joyce's Poetry." Review of The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered ed. by Marc C. Conner. James Joyce Literary Supplement 27.1 (Spring 2013): 4-5.
• Review of Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance by David Ray Griffin. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43.4 (Fall 2007): 802-809.
• "Pragmatist Improvisations." Review of Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing by Michael Magee and Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews by Nathaniel Mackey. Journal of Modern Literature 30.3 (Spring 2007): 133-142.

Research

My research interests include twentieth-century Anglophone poetry and poetics, pragmatism and process philosophy, the history of little magazines and small presses, literary archives, and the writings of Robert Duncan.