In this close reading designed to discover the primal relationship between a poet's first and last words, Simmons (English, U. of Iowa) juxtaposes the first and last books of seven poets: Robert Lowel
Contemporary culture consists of many crossing threads. Mestizo poets, as ethnic and cultural cross-breeds, find themselves at the points of intersection. This inquiry deals with contemporary poets of
Finds the narrative poem Slinger , written between 1967 and 1974, to be a chronicle of the rise and fall of the revolutionary counterculture and a commentary on its noble aspirations and base pretensi
Schuler provides a comprehensive explication of Snyder's two major long poems, Myths & Texts and Mountains and Rivers Without End , focusing on Snyder's concept of "original mind," that state of mi
Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Disc
Lamantia played a significant role in both the Beat and the San Francisco Renaissance movements during the 1950s and 1960s, says Frattali (National Tsing Hua U., Taiwan), was one of the first American
