... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 352 pp. $40.00 . Poetic Machinations: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form . By Golston Michael . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2015 . xvi, 247 pp. Cloth , $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . Pitch of Poetry . By Bernstein...

... of historical time. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Cody A Wayward Art: Battle-Pieces and Marrs Melville’s Poetic Turn Herman Melville’s poetic career has proven to be quite the loose fish. Ever since Raymond Weaver, in the first biog...

...Robert McRuer © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature . Ed. H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi M. Rose. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2006. xxviii, 264 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper...

... religious systems, then, are ‘‘stories or symbols—poetic, metaphorical at- tempts to talk about God and reality in terms that are less forbidding than the coldly impersonal vocabulary of metaphysics’’ (86). Such perspectival deities...

... Book Reviews 885 Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War.BySu- barno Chattarji. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2001. xxi, 248 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $21.95...

...Maria Damon © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 . By Timothy Yu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 192 pp. $45.00. Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry after 1945...

... Hall. Minneapolis: Minnesota Univ. Press. 2008. vii, 301 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.99. Poetic Acts and New Media . By Tom O'Connor. Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America. 2006. xxxvi, 174 pp. Paper, $28.95. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews Pen of Iron: American Prose...

... The Line’s Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight. By Elisa New. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1998. x, 342 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $24.95. In her introduction to this developmental study of experience through the...

...); and chapter 4, which focuses on Appalachian Latina/o poets Maurice Kilwein Guevara’s and Marcos McPeek Villatoro’s complex allegiances, affiliations, and disaffiliations across ethnicity and region. Finally, both volumes crucially turn us back toward a poetics that attends closely to poetry’s many...

...Bill Solomon On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines . By Donal Harris . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2016 . viii, 275 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book, $27.99 . Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print . By Bartholomew Brinkman...

...Anita Helle Duke University Press 2006 The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove . By Lesley Wheeler. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2002. x, 2001 pp. $27.00. Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self...

...Alan Golding © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott . By George B. Handley. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xi, 441 pp. $39.95. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959...

...Geoffrey Jacques © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics . By Rob Wilson. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 325 pp. $45.00. Soon Come: Jamaican Spirituality, Jamaican Poetics . By Hugh Hodges...

...Jed Rasula Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics . By Reed Brian M. . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xxvii, 249 pp. Paper , $29.95 , e-book , $29.95 . Powers of Possibility: Experimental American Writing since the 1960s . By Houen Alex...

... poetry, such as Samuel Butler’s Hudibras, which uses characters as types. The link between Clarel and Melville’s three collections of poetry is their emphasis on a ‘‘poetics of double-dealing’’ marked by irony and indirection. With none of Dryden’s self-conscious apologetics, Harold Aspiz’s So Long...

...Bob Perelman 2005 Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy . By Marjorie Perloff. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxxiv, 307 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95; The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics . By Barrett Watten. Middletown, Conn...

...Rebecca Walsh Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry . By White Gillian . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2014 . 350 pp . $45.00 . American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form . By Robbins Amy Moorman . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers...

...Joshua Miller Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature . By Rosenwald Lawrence Alan . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2008 . xxii, 174 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.99 . World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization . Ed. Gallagher Mary...

...Jane Anna Gordon The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War . By Smith Caleb . 2013 . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . xiii , 264 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book , $35.00 . Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American...