Allen Grossman has been doing things with tears for decades. "Stars are tears falling with light inside," begins the title poem ofThe Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River (1979). The moon is a ...
How to Do Things With Words documented lectures in which he explored performative utterances—cases when people use words to do something rather than describe something. By speaking certain words, a ...
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