Introduction: "Not needed except as meaning": memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry -- The Holocaust again: literal and figurative fragmentation in Sylvia Plath's Ariel -- "To feel with a human stranger": address and asymmetrical witness in Adrienne Rich's Dark fields of the republic -- "I am the ghost who haunts us": prosopopeia and the poetics of infection in AIDS poetry -- "Deep into the lateness now": likeness and lateness in Jorie Graham's Region of unlikeness -- "Spectral scraps": displacement, metonymy, and the elegiac in Susan Howe's The midnight -- Coda: "To begin the forgetting": belatedness beyond memory.
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