... . 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- raphy...

...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...

... of the divine to which they can relate on a personally meaningful basis’’ (86). All religious systems, then, are ‘‘stories or symbols—poetic, metaphorical at- tempts to talk about God and reality in terms that are less forbidding than...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... of a series of volumes of collected poems, also played a decisive role in the consolidation of a modernist canon of literary monuments. The New Critics, too, deserve censure for adhering, in their influential method of reading, to the guiding principles (“poetic value, tradition, and organic unity” [67...

...); 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 raisons...

...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...

... of Oregon DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-052 Book Reviews 849 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...

...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...

... 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! Book Reviews 417 offers...

...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...

...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...

...Rebecca Walsh Schmidt and Robbins build on Andreas Huyssen’s observations about the avant-garde’s entrenched rejection of mass culture through associating it with socially marginalized groups and map the potential for abjection to find form and expression in waste poetics and hybrid poetics...

... González, and the Poetics of Culture . By María Eugenia Cotera. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2008. xi, 286 pp. $60.00. Book Reviews Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770– 1860. By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi, 348 pp. 2009...

...; paper, $30.99. A Transnational Poetics . By Jahan Ramazani. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xvii, 221 pp. $29.00. Book Reviews Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770– 1860. By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi, 348...

... 10.1215/00029831-2010-037 Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions. By Kathleen Wood- ward. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. The self has been making a tentative comeback. No longer imperial, nor master in her...