ABOUT MIDDLELOST
Middlelost is an annual literary and arts journal edited and published in Durham NC by David Need. The first two issues were published on-line in 2018 & 2019 and were edited by David Need and Cory Massaro. PDFs of those issues are available for download in Back Issues.
David Need lives in Raleigh NC. He taught Asian Religions and Religion and Arts/Literature at Duke University and NC State University for twenty-four years. He has published two collections of his own poetry and two of translations of the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke. He currently edits the annual arts and literature journal MiddleLost and was one-time curator of the Arcade Taberna Long Poem Reading Series.
Bibliography
Poetry Monographs
St. John’s Rose Slumber. Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2019.
Broken Windows. Bodily Press, Forthcoming, Fall 2025.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Notebooks and Personal Papers. Translation and Critical Essay by David Need. Shearsman Press, Fall 2018.
Songs In-Between the Day / Offshore St. Mark. Durham: Three Count Pour, 2015.
Rainer Maria Rilke. Roses. Translation and Critical Essay by David Need. Pen and Ink Drawings by Clare Johnson. Durham: Horse and Buggy Press, 2014.
Articles and Reveiw Essays
2018: Review Essay: Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age (Columbia University Press, 2017) in Talisman 46 (2018).
2015b “Dream, Trance and Form: An Exchange with Alice Notley” in Hambone 21 (Summer 2015).
2013a: “Folding Time: On the ‘Gnostic’ Effects of Irruption and Loss in the Work of H.D., Philip K. Dick, Allen Ginsberg, and Alice Notley” in Talisman 42 (2014)
2013b: “Adjacency and the Politics of Everyday Practice: Fanny Howe’s Lives of a Spirit” in Spoke 1 (Fall 2013).
2012a: “Spontaneity, Immediacy, and Difference: Philosophy, Being in Time, and Creativity in the Aesthetics of Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, and John Cage” in Sharin N. Elkholy, ed., The Philosophy of the Beats. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
Conference Papers
July 2017: “Thinking Spirit Differently: Douglas Oliver’s Poetry in the Early 90s as an Example of a Non-Dual Notion of Immediacy” National Poetry Foundation Conference on the 1990s. Orono, ME.
Feb 2016: “Angels in the Architecture: On Rilke’s Turn to the Angel in ‘Poems to the Night.’ Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY.
Feb 2015: “The Unsatisfactory Night: Rilke’s 1913-4 “Poems to the Night” and Lyric Modernism.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY.
Feb 2013: “Folding Time: On the Gnostic Effects of Irruption and Loss in the Work of H.D., Philip K. Dick, Allen Ginsberg and Alice Notley.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. Louisville, KY.
July 2012: “Adjacency and Voice in the Dream of the Everyday: Fanny Howe’s ‘the lives of a spirit’ and Bernadette Meyer’s ‘Midwinter Day.’” The Poetry of the Eighties: National Poetry Foundation Conference. Orono ME.
May 2010: “The Room Next Door: Poetry, Ritual and the Production of Impossible Space” & “The Measure of the Beat: Spontaneity and Boundary in the Work of Jack Kerouac.” Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse’. Brussels, Belgium.
Please contact David here for copies and/or PDFs of his work.