Introduction: Mysticism and the twentieth-century long poem -- The late modernism of H.D.'s trilogy and a postmodernist response: Brenda Hillman's death tractates -- In language I encounter God: Robert Duncan's textual mysticism in Passages -- The kitsch man cometh: myth and popular culture in James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover -- Charles Wright's God fearing agnostic in the Appalachian book of the dead -- Questioning western spirituality: Galway Kinnell's The book of nightmares and Gary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end.
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