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Author:

Gray, Jeffrey, 1944-

Title:

Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry / Jeffrey Gray.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xiv, 288 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--Foreign influences.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Americans--Foreign countries--History--20th century.
Travelers in literature.
Travel in literature.
Foreign countries--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.

Contents:

Roots and routes : the trouble with travel -- Falling off the round, turning world : Elizabeth Bishop's Tristes tropiques -- Interlude : travelers and tourists : from Bishop to Lowell -- Fear of flying : Robert Lowell and the Trope of vulnerability -- Interlude : dandies and flaneurs : American poetry and the center-margin debate -- The great escape : John Ashbery's Travel Agency -- Shooting the Gulf : three beat questions of travel -- The problem of witness : the travels of Derek Walcott -- Travel and difference : Lyn Hejinian and Nathaniel Mackey -- Epilogue : the trouble with travel.

ISBN:

9780820326634 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820326631 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56104160

LCCN:

2004018183

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)