A Reading in Temporal Poetics: Elizabeth Bishop's “The Map”

richard d. cureton has a B.A. in philosophy (1973) and an M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980) in linguistics from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Over his career, he taught courses in rhythmics, linguistics, rhetoric, stylistics, poetics, and modern American poetry, first at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1981–85) and then at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1985–2013). He is the author of the book Rhythmic Phrasing in English Verse (1992) and a hundred or so essays, notes, comments, summaries, and reviews. Recently, he has developed a rhythmically-based theory of poetry, “temporal poetics,” which he is in the process of publishing. He is now retired. ([email protected])