Richard Deming

Lecturer in English, Yale University

John P. Birkelund Fellow in the Humanities - Class of Spring 2012

Richard Deming is a poet and theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. He is the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford, 2008), and his collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. Deming is a contributor a variety of magazines, such as Artforum and the Boston Review, and his works have appeared, among others, in Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation. He teaches at Yale University.

Project Description

Everyday Domain: The Ordinary in Art, Film, Philosophy and Poetry, Day for Night

During his time at the American Academy in Berlin, Deming worked on the completion of two books, “Everyday Domain: The Ordinary in Art, Film, Philosophy” and “Poetry: Day for Night.” The first aims to reveal the ongoing “philosophicality, interpretation, and imagination that are experienced in the ordinary and everyday.” Using a cross-disciplinary approach, and studying a myriad of principal figures, Everyday Domain argues for the foundational claim of Wittgenstein that culture and community both circulate language and circulate as language. For his second book, Deming will compile a collection of poems that raise the questions central to discovering what we are doing when we attempt to express self’s relationship to others through language and visual metaphors.

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