Benjamin Glaser

Ben Glaser is associate professor of English at Yale University. His work appears in ELH, PMLA, Victorian Poetry, modernism/modernity, NLH, and other venues. He is the author of Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020), and co-editor with Jonathan Culler of Critical Rhythm (Fordham, 2019). His current book project, The Last Syllable: Poetic Language after the Breaking of Form, continues to re-center historical prosody as a disruptive force in accounts of poetic form. It reveals how poets have, over the past century, rebuilt the basic units of language that count as form—lines, syllables, phonemes, transcribed letters, vibrating air—to create new disciplines of formalized sound.