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
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
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
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
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
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
