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Author Keller, Lynn, 1952-

Title Re-making it new : contemporary American poetry and the modernist tradition / Lynn Keller
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987

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Description x, 298 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Contents Introduction "Unless there is/a new mind there cannot be a new/line": the modernist inheritance -- "Thinkers without final thoughts": the continuity between Stevens and Ashbery -- "We must, we must be moving on": Ashbery's divergence from Stevens and modernism -- "Piercing glances into the life of things": the continuity between Moore and Bishop -- "Resolved, dissolved ... in that watery, dazzling dialectic": Bishop's divergence from Moore and modernism -- "A small (or large) machine made of words': the continuity between Williams and Creeley -- "Let/go, let go of it": Creeley's divergence from Williams and modernism -- "Those who love illusion/and know it": the continuity between Auden and Merrill -- "I knew//the life was friction in disguise": Merrill's divergence from Auden and modernism -- Conclusion "The possibility of free declamation anchored/to a dull refrain": the postmodernist estate
Analysis Poetry in English American writers, 1945- - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 268-292
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
LC no. 86033452
ISBN 0521332834