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Denise Riley

Denise Riley
Denise Riley is a philosopher and poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Marxism for Infants, Dry Air, Stair Spirit, and others. Say Something Back was nominated for a Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection. Riley’s nonfiction writing includes War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother and Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect. She is currently Professor of the History of Ideas and of Poetry at the University of East Anglia.


There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

Denise Riley on the Temporal Dislocation of Profound Loss
February 10, 2020  By Denise Riley
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