Comments & Themes

Topics for research and critical analysis:

• Analyze in terms of poetics Watten’s practice a derived from poststructuralist theory.

• Establish Barrett Watten’s intentionality for dissociation.

• Consider Watten’s poetry as testimony to various ideological preoccupations.

• Analyze paragraphs, disjunctive sentences, and line breaks as structural elements in Watten’s poetry.

• Amnesia and memory in Under Erasure: composition and its transcendental signification as language praxis.

• Watten’s use of typographic devices: encounter of inner and outer communication.