In this new, scholarly text—an ambitious study of contemporary poetics—Joe W. Moffett deciphers the twentieth-century long poem, searching for a better understanding of why long-poem writers are preoc
Moffett (English, Kentucky Western College, Owensboro) offers the first full length study of Wright's poetry, which has won many prestigious awards and recognition around the world. Engagement with pl
This book examines how postmodernist writers use the long poem as a means of exploring a direct relationship with the divine. They find that they must chart individual paths of spiritual understanding
