...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Ul Confession and Autobiography in James Merrill s Early Poetry Timothy Materer You know, this guy’s got a secret, and he’s gonna keep it. —Arthur Miller to Dylan Thomas about James Merrill...

... takes as keen an interest in the poetry as he does in the nuances of the Alberses’s glass, textile, and drawing work; that latter interest brings to life the sort of excitement Duncan and others would have felt as writers sharing actual space with the craftspeople. Throughout the book, which...

...Rachel Trousdale The Cambridge History of American Poetry , edited by Bendixen Alfred and Burt Stephen . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 1326 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 The new Cambridge History of American Poetry is a formidable tome...

...Jonathan Greenberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 HI Why Can’t Biologists Read Poetry? Ian McEwan s Enduring Love Jonathan Greenberg Since the reinvention of social Darwinism as sociobiology in the 1970s, and particularly since the reinvention of sociobiology...

...Marian Eide Contemporary Irish poetry is producing a tradition of memorial to the Famine years of the 1840s. Countering purist versions of Irish identity as Catholic, indigenous, and rural, this body of work is provoked by Famine memory to explore Irishness as diasporic and widely transnational...

...Gregory Leadbetter [email protected] The Value of Poetry , by Falci Eric . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 198 pages. © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 The history of literary criticism is deeply laden with the discussion of poetry, but homing...

...Feng Lan The Modernist Response to Chinese Art , by Qian Zhaoming , Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2003 . 274 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 American Poetry and Chinese Art: New Perspectives on a Cross-Cultural Relationship The Modernist...

...Jo Gill Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 w Textual Confessions: Narcissism in Anne Sexton’s Early Poetry Jo Gill CZ^onfessional poetry, a mode that was prominent in the United States in the 1960s and early 70s, has, over time, come to be regarded as a regret­ table...

...Frances Dickey Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres , by Ramazani Jahan , University of Chicago Press , 2013 . 304 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Review Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres...

...Norman Finkelstein Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI Late Duncan: From Poetry to Scripture Norman Finkelstein A poem always runs the risk of being meaningless, and would be nothing without this risk —-Jacques Derrida, Writing...

...Eric Falci Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry , by Keniston Ann . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2015 . 228 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 In Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry , Ann Keniston...

...Claire Seiler Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry , by Quinn Justin . Oxford University Press , 2015 . 218 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Justin Quinn’s new book tracks the movement of Central and Eastern European (primarily Czech) and American...

... intellectual, artistic, and personal development. As Eliot moves from analytic philosophy in his doctoral dissertation through the philosophically invested poetry that culminates in The Waste Land (1922) and, finally, to the autobiographical and participatory idiom of Four Quartets (1943), his work...

...Bryan C. Chitwood This article examines the work of British poet Tom Pickard, taking the publication of his collected poems as an occasion to renew an appreciation of the voice as an analytic category for the study of twentieth-century and contemporary British poetry. Focusing on a range...

...Ursula K. Heise New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott , by Handley George , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2007 . 448 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Ursula K. Heise Poetry and the Natures of the New World...

...Lara Vetter Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture , by Bryant Marsha , Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . 235 pages. Lara Vetter Rebranding Women’s Poetry Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture by Marsha Bryant Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 235 pages...

...Steven Gould Axelrod American Poetry after Modernism: The Power of the Word , by Gelpi Albert . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 316 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 Albert Gelpi has now completed his critical trilogy on US poetry, a project nearly...

...Mark Scroggins Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work , by DuPlessis Rachel Blau , Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2006 . 302 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 Postmodernist Poetry’s “Blue Period” Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work by Rachel...

...William Fogarty Taking up the persistent question of poetry’s sociopolitical capacities by considering how Harrison’s poems depend on the power of local speech, this article examines how they cast his working-class northern English dialect in meter and rhyme as a way to scrutinize social...

... the symposium, this essay uses the terms established in “Feeling and Precision” to recalibrate the ethical turn Moore’s poetry took during and after the Second World War. Drawing on the lecture’s emphasis on the “compulsion to unbearable accuracy,” the essay traces the transition from the commitment...