Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-298) and index.
Contents:
1: The obligation toward the difficult whole -- Angels in America: James Merrill's The changing light at sandover -- Pop (up) figures: Melvin Tolson's Harlem Gallery and Edward Dorn's Gunslinger -- 4: Archaeologies of knowledge: Geoffrey Hill's Mercian hymns and Armand Schwerner's The tablets -- 5: How (not) to read a postmodernist long poem: John Ashbery's "The skaters" -- 6: Will the revolution be televised? Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend and Bruce Andrew's "confidence trick" -- 7: The silent woman: Susan Howe's The Europe of trust -- Elements of postmodernist poetry.
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