Jorie Graham (1950-), a famous contemporary American woman poet, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, is well-known as a "philosophical poet".

Based upon Wittgenstein’s view on the use of ordinary language,the book Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff interprets the works of quite a few writers and artists and explores their artistic features and respective views of art to uncover a contemporary poetics whose core is the use of ordinary language.

The Poetics of Indeterminacy:Rimbaud to Cage,representing Marjorie Perloff\'s "theoretical maturity",is a corrective reading of contemporary American poetry in its cultural context.

A Cognitive Interpretation on "Chinese Jordan" and the Related Constructions;