...Dean Rader How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse . By Newcomb John Timberman . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xi, 338 pp . $75.00 . Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry . By Marsh John...

...J. Peter Moore Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry . By Shockley Evie . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xii , 264 pp. Paper , $39.95 . Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s...

...Anne Raine Duke University Press 2007 The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry . By Elisabeth A. Frost. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2003. xviii, 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse . By Linda A. Kinnahan...

...J. Peter Moore Book Reviews 201 Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading. By Raphael Allison. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2014. xvii, 250 pp. Paper, $49.95; e-book, $49.95. In Visible Movement: Nuyorican...

...Jed Rasula © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film . By Susan McCabe. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $92.00; paper, $39.99. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s...

...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...

...Mark Scroggins © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery . By Helen Vendler. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. 95 pp. Cloth, $32.95; paper, $14.95. The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry...

...Jeff Westover Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics . By Heather Milne . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2018 . viii, 280 pp. Paper, $80.00 ; e-book, $80.00 . Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry...

...J. Peter Moore Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture . By Epstein Andrew . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xi, 364 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; e-book available. The Lyric in the Age of the Brain . By Skillman Nikki...

...Jeanne Heuving The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly . By McCaffery Steve . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xii , 282 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry . By Reddy...

...Brooke Horvath 2006 Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry . By Jed Rasula. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. x, 311 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry...

...Philip Beidler © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World . By Bonnie Costello. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2008. xvii, 205 pp. $29.95. Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945...

... numerous to catalog also make Pollak’s local arguments hard to follow in the first half of the book. Sometimes these problematic readings are the clear result of Pollak’s hermeneutics of desire; she wants a particular passage from Whitman’s poetry to support a much larger claim that she is making...

.... David D. Cooper, Michigan State University Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness. By Peter O’Leary. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2002. xviii, 268 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper...

...Elizabeth Duquette To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War . By Barrett Faith . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2012 . xiii , 336 pp. Paper , $27.95 . America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism . By Hanlon...

...J. Peter Moore Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life . By Izenberg Oren . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . 2010 . ix, 234 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.95 . Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside . By Nichols Miriam . Tuscaloosa...

... Mortensen. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. xi, 279 pp. $34.95. Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women’s Poetry, 1800–1900. By Paula Bernat Bennett. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2003. xvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50. Imagining...

... as a canny reader of George Herbert, whose poetry offers her terms for a revisionary account of her intellectual relationship to Emerson and a cri- tique of Northeastern cultural restrictions. Finally, Melville’s reworkings...

... the fiction of a lesbian who sometimes enjoyed reading around in ‘‘the male homo- 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 196 of 232 sexual literary tradition Melissa Solomon, Duke University Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry...

... attention to this fact, Kerouac, The Word and the Way is an important contribution to the existing body of Kerouac scholarship. D. Quentin Miller, Suffolk University Book Reviews 649 A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder...