Contemporary Poetry
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- Alvarez, The New Poetry, p. 25.
- John Berryman, ‘Dream Song 14 ’, in Selected Poems 1938 – 1968
(London: Faber & Faber, 1977 ), p. 73.
- Al Alvarez, The Writer’s Voice (London: Bloomsbury, 2005 ),
p. 17.
- Donald Allen (ed.), The New American Poetry Revised (New
York: Grove Press, 1982 ), p. 9.
- Donald Allen and Warren Tallman (eds), The Poetics of the
New American Poetry (New York: Grove Press, 1973 ).
- Adrienne Rich, ‘Blood, Bread and Poetry: The Location of
the Poet’, Massachusetts Review, 24. 3 ( 1983 ), 521 – 40 (p. 535 ).
Originally given as a lecture in 1979.
- Adrienne Rich, The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and
New 1950 – 1984 (New York: Norton & Norton, 1984 ), p. 91.
All subsequent references to this edition are given in the text.
- Annie Finch and Susan M. Schultz (eds), Multiformalisms:
Postmodern Poetics of Form (Cincinnati: WordTech
Communications, 2008 ).
- Schmidt, New Poetries, p. 9.
- Schmidt, New Poetries, pp. 9 – 10.
- Derek Walcott, Omeros (London: Faber & Faber, 1990 ), p. 23.
All subsequent references to this edition are given in the text.
- Derek Walcott, ‘Leaving School’, in Hinterland: Caribbean
Poetry from the West Indies and Britain, ed. E. A. Markham
(Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1989 ), p. 93.
- Jeff Hilson (ed.), The Reality Book of Sonnets (Hastings: Reality
Street Editions, 2008 ).
- Geraldine Monk, Ghost & Other Sonnets (Cambridge: Salt,
2008 ).
- Laynie Browne, Daily Sonnets (Denver, CO: Counterpath,
2008 ).
- Jahan Ramazani, A Transnational Poetics (Chicago: Chicago
University Press, 2009 ), p. 19.
- Bruce Robbins, Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress
(New York: New York University Press, 1999 ), p. 15.
- Schmidt, New Poetries, p. 11.
