Thomas Gould recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2018).

'This book is a very important linking of the materiality of expressive activity with a superb philosophical critique of what relying on categories established by language might cost the mind. It is a startlingly original contribution to our understanding of what can align poetry with the visual arts and distinguish it from commitments to cognitive analysis of its ways of making experience present. It helps that Gould is a brilliant analyst of writers like Francis Ponge, Marianne Moore, A. R. Ammons, and Anne Carson. For me, developing new sites for critical activity is even more important than the superb readings which exemplify how Gould connects writing to what escapes ordinary uses of language.' Charles Altieri, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

• IntroductionPhilosophical Adults: The Forgetfulness of DrawingGifts and Strains: Psychoanalysis and Child DrawingSnails and Whales: Marianne Moore and the Case of the Colonias InfantilesGeorges-Henri Luquet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Francis Ponge: Graphic InfancyA.R. Ammons: The Nature of the LineJacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy: Rhetoric and RhythmAnne Carson: Still DrawingCoda:Traceability

Thomas Gould recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2018).

'This book is a very important linking of the materiality of expressive activity with a superb philosophical critique of what relying on categories established by language might cost the mind. It is a startlingly original contribution to our understanding of what can align poetry with the visual arts and distinguish it from commitments to cognitive analysis of its ways of making experience present. It helps that Gould is a brilliant analyst of writers like Francis Ponge, Marianne Moore, A. R. Ammons, and Anne Carson. For me, developing new sites for critical activity is even more important than the superb readings which exemplify how Gould connects writing to what escapes ordinary uses of language.' Charles Altieri, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

• IntroductionPhilosophical Adults: The Forgetfulness of DrawingGifts and Strains: Psychoanalysis and Child DrawingSnails and Whales: Marianne Moore and the Case of the Colonias InfantilesGeorges-Henri Luquet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Francis Ponge: Graphic InfancyA.R. Ammons: The Nature of the LineJacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy: Rhetoric and RhythmAnne Carson: Still DrawingCoda:Traceability

Thomas Gould recently completed a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Silence in Modern Literature and Philosophy (Palgrave, 2018).

'This book is a very important linking of the materiality of expressive activity with a superb philosophical critique of what relying on categories established by language might cost the mind. It is a startlingly original contribution to our understanding of what can align poetry with the visual arts and distinguish it from commitments to cognitive analysis of its ways of making experience present. It helps that Gould is a brilliant analyst of writers like Francis Ponge, Marianne Moore, A. R. Ammons, and Anne Carson. For me, developing new sites for critical activity is even more important than the superb readings which exemplify how Gould connects writing to what escapes ordinary uses of language.' Charles Altieri, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

• IntroductionPhilosophical Adults: The Forgetfulness of DrawingGifts and Strains: Psychoanalysis and Child DrawingSnails and Whales: Marianne Moore and the Case of the Colonias InfantilesGeorges-Henri Luquet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Francis Ponge: Graphic InfancyA.R. Ammons: The Nature of the LineJacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy: Rhetoric and RhythmAnne Carson: Still DrawingCoda:Traceability