A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 607 department, and – in fact – off the printed page. The printed word has made poet ...

608 The American Century: Literature since 1945 taint of self-consciousness, no compulsion to look before or after. They act wit ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 609 mixed media event. Something that McClure says of his own work (gathered in volu ...

610 The American Century: Literature since 1945 “I hold the most archaic values on earth,” Snyder insists. “They go back to the ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 611 consciousness” through music or meditation, drugs, mantras, or poems. “The only ...

612 The American Century: Literature since 1945 commented, “In this mode, perfection is basic, and these are not perfect.” Ginsb ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 613 of power and “pure machinery” in a way that recalls earlier prophets like Isaiah ...

614 The American Century: Literature since 1945 vision, of the kind once sculpted by Whitman and Pound and now constituted by th ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 615 down by any of the institutions or forms that we use to organize life, whether t ...

616 The American Century: Literature since 1945 can say,” he suggested, and as a way of saying this himself – a means of assurin ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 617 behind it. A successful relation of verbal imagery or visual planes should creat ...

618 The American Century: Literature since 1945 that” poems, like “Joe’s Jacket,” “Personal Poem,” and “Lana Turner has Collapse ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 619 clear differences have emerged between them. The poetry of Barbara Guest (1920–2 ...

620 The American Century: Literature since 1945 and readers alike are victims of “an absolute and total misunderstanding (but no ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 621 himself. “The carnivorous / way of these lines is to devour their own nature,” h ...

622 The American Century: Literature since 1945 stripped of conclusive choices: “I cannot decide in what direction to walk,” the ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 623 Paterson or Notebook, as fragmented and bewildering as The Bridge or The Dream S ...

624 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Robinson. What they have in common, along with a dedication to the use of meter ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 625 in her use of traditional form. In her first collection, Eve (1997), for example ...

626 The American Century: Literature since 1945 background in classical Greek; that, with her larger interest in Greek history a ...