October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
February 7, 2018
Join us on February 15th, from 4-5:30pm for the Literary Department’s alumni reading event, featuring Allen Strouse! […]
Assistant Professor Jennifer Firestone’s new publication is out!
In Gates & Fields, Jennifer Firestone conjures Emily Dickinson to serve as the Virgil of this brave lyric sequence, guiding the poems through the fierce silences at the heart of grief. Firestone is a poet who feels her way forward, and her spare language and intense images cast a vital, vitalizing light across the landscape of loss.
—Susan Howe
Wondrously strange, eerily healing, like an overheard incantation, these clipped lyrics build sound relationships and repetitions into a conversation among the elements—one that makes them somehow even more elemental, even more essential. Firestone weaves a beautifully haunted atmosphere, enthralling and captivating. We are there with her in the carriage—toward eternity.
—Cole Swensen
Reading these spare poems makes me feel like I am participating in them, overhearing them, such is their suggestiveness and the intimacy of their utterances.
—Kazim Ali
What holds us in is often not what we imagine. Jennifer Firestone knows it better than any of us and her new book is a template of the heavenly earth. Many thanks for this book’s dreamy sluice into another version of our world. If poets can reignite lost eyes on the path, Firestone is our champion. A poet we need, a poet who can show the poet in all who imagine and read.
—CA Conrad
Firestone’s quiescent elegy is set in another time. Time of death, time of memory, a time of pellucid borderline consciousness. Do we wake or sleep? Poignant, fragile subtleties of existence collect here—particulars transcend and magnify, as in “Guilt and other small planets colliding.” The quiet power of Gates & Fields grows on you, over you.
—Anne Waldman
