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...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...

...—as a suturing of the subject to the shocks of capitalism.” In a strong form of determinism, he argues that Boyer’s “poetic subject . . . has no choice but to write within the conditions set by global capital. It is not only that poetry emerges from conditions of precarious life, but also...

...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...

...J. Peter Moore Poetry provides, as the Poetry Magazine mailer suggests, temporary respite from the task-induced stress of our daily lives. But the circular doesn’t mention the way in which poetry must compete like any other medium for our ever-diminishing store of deep focus. This is in part...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...J. Peter Moore J. Peter Moore lives in Durham, North Carolina, where he is a PhD candidate in English at Duke University, writing a dissertation about the concept of vernacularity in postwar American poetry. In addition to his critical writing, which can be found in American Literature...

...) as exemplars of an impetus in contemporary American poetry to enable exit from the state. However, this project inevitably fails, and the poetics of exit resorts to a renewed voice. Rather than a complaint addressed to authority, these poets’ voiced demand for exit now forms the potential basis of new...

...) and all the details of his death and burial, thus “tend[ing] to the narrative . . . as carefully as she would have to his body” (175). Wilson found literary value not in the war’s poetry, as Christopher Hager reminds us in I Remain Yours , but primarily in its personal writings. Wilson examined...

... “cognitive, affective, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions” (258). Word of Mouth follows some prominent trends in poetry scholarship, most notably a historical poetics concern with what has come to be called lyric reading. Somebody Telling Somebody Else resists some prominent modes of reading in literary...

...Barbara Eckstein Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans . By Julia Guarneri . Chicago, IL : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2017 . 330 pp. Cloth, $45.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape...

...Michele Elam Abstract Literature, poetry, and other forms of noncommercial creative expression challenge the techno-instrumentalist approaches to language, the predictive language generation, informing NLP (large natural language processing models) such as GPT-3 or -4 as well as, more generally...

...Zachariah Pickard Duke University Press 2007 Zachariah The Morality of Aesthetic Action: Pickard Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the Politics of Poetry In Axel’s Castle (1931), Edmund Wilson argues that the symbolists...