David B. Hobbs

David B. Hobbs teaches at a small university in Canada. With Richard Sieburth, he is editing a collection of Ezra Pound's unpublished late poetry, and he is working on his first book, What Can You Do Alone? Lyric Sociality and the Global Depression.

E.E. Cummings, 1962.

The Peculiar Legacy of E.E. Cummings The Peculiar Legacy of E.E. Cummings

Revisiting his first book, The Enormous Room, a reader can get a sense of everything appealing and appalling in his work.

Jul 22, 2024 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs

John Keats’s Politics of Pain and Renewal

John Keats’s Politics of Pain and Renewal John Keats’s Politics of Pain and Renewal

Anahid Nersessian offers a radical and unforgettable reading of the British writer’s odes—one that upends our sense of his poetic project.

Oct 21, 2021 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs

The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire

The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire The New Worlds of Aimé Césaire

The radical vision of the Martinique poet and politician.

Jul 3, 2018 / Books & the Arts / David B. Hobbs

Between the News and a Prayer

Between the News and a Prayer Between the News and a Prayer

Danez Smith’s poetry bends language to hope for the possibility of a better world.

Nov 15, 2017 / David B. Hobbs

The Poetics of Jazz

The Poetics of Jazz The Poetics of Jazz

A new book presents an alternative aesthetic history of jazz—and is also a challenge to all music critics.

Jul 20, 2017 / David B. Hobbs

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