Abstract:This essay explores the ways in which experimental writers who work as professors must reconcile the difficulty of their creative work with the explicatory demands of pedagogy. It takes as its main case study the way in which Jorie Graham's poetry exhibits a deep ambivalence about epistemological authority that can be meaningfully tied to the solidification of her academic career. Her work reveals a fundamental truth about the nature of academic discourse in the humanities: it affirms our sense that the dissemination of "critical thinking" is both necessary and socially relevant, while at the same time drawing itself away from sites of pedagogical disclosure, calling attention to the necessity of "obscured" modes of discourse both to the creative and to the academic-hermeneutic process. The simultaneity of this affirmation and anxiety is performed through the dialectical motions of secrecy and disclosure. Ultimately, Graham registers our best hopes for the possibilities of the creative writing program precisely insofar as she challenges the demand for rhetorical clarity and easily parsed choices of "craft" that have come to characterize many such programs. The central tension of this kind of "academic" poetry thus becomes one between the competing interests of the university as it comes to regulate both the consumption and production of literature.

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商业秘密：教学机器中的诗歌

摘要：本文探讨了担任教授的实验作家必须如何调适其创造性工作与教学法的明确要求。以乔里·格雷厄姆的诗表现出对认识论权威的深刻矛盾为主要案例研究，这可以与她的学术生涯的巩固息息相关。她的作品揭示了关于人文学科学术话语本质的基本真理：它肯定了我们的感觉，即传播“批判性思维”既必要又具有社会意义，同时又使自己脱离了教学公开的领域，注意创造性和学术解释过程都必须采用“模糊的”话语方式。这种肯定和焦虑的同时发生是通过保密和公开的辩证运动来进行的。最终，格雷厄姆对创意写作程序的可能性寄予了最美好的希望，因为她挑战了对表达清晰性的要求，并轻易剖析了许多此类程序的特征，从而轻松地选择了“工艺”。因此，这种“学术”诗歌的中心张力在调节文学的消费和生产方面成为大学竞争利益之间的矛盾之一。格雷厄姆正对创意写作计划的可能性寄予我们最大的希望，因为她挑战了对口头表达的要求，并轻易剖析了许多此类程序的特征，对“工艺”的选择也很容易。因此，这种“学术”诗歌的中心张力在调节文学的消费和生产方面成为大学竞争利益之间的矛盾之一。格雷厄姆正对创意写作计划的可能性寄予我们最大的希望，因为她挑战了对口头清晰度的要求，并轻易剖析了许多此类程序的特征，对“工艺”的选择也很容易。因此，这种“学术”诗歌的中心张力在调节文学的消费和生产方面成为大学竞争利益之间的矛盾之一。