| Description |
x, 214 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
"We have come this far": audience and form in contemporary poetry -- "Songs of a happy man": the poetry of Theodore Roethke -- Republican objects and Utopian moments: the poetry of Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg -- "With your own face on": confessional poetry -- Interchapter The poet and the poet's generation -- "The clear architecture of the nerves": the poetry of Frank O'Hara -- "The rank flavor of blood": the poetry of Galway Kinnell -- "Rejoicing in the gathering dark": the poetry of Robert Bly -- Interchapter The metaphors for the poem -- "The burned essential oil": the gestures of Philip Levine -- "This leaving-out business": the poetry of John Ashbery -- Interchapter Magazines and magazine verse -- Reflections in place of a conclusion |
| Analysis |
Poetry in English American writers 1945- |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
79001561 |
| ISBN |
0826202780 |
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0826202837 |
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