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.
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