A new theory for American poetry : democracy, the environment, and the future of imagination
Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today’s consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.
Print Book, English, 2004
Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.) [etc.], 2004
IX, 316 p. 21 cm
9780674019881, 0674019881
1015075738
Introduction 1. Clare's Horizon 2. The Argument of Form 3. Description 4. Ashbery's Clare 5. Diurnal Knowledge 6. The Whitman Phrase 7. The Environment-Poem 8. Waves and the Troping of Poetic Form 9. Middle Voice 10. Ashbery and the Becoming of the Poem 11. Meditating Chaos and Complexity 12. The Long Amazing and Unprecedented Way 13. Coherence 14. Precious Idiosyncrasy: An Epilogue Notes Index