Comparative Literature Program

Libbie Rifkin’s book, Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), is an institutional history of American poetic ambition in the 1950s and 1960s. She has published articles and reviews on 20th century poetry and poetics in Poetics Today, Contemporary Literature, Modernism/Modernity, and Jacket Magazine. Her current work focuses on George Oppen and the politics of gender.