Acknowledgments and Permissions; Introduction; 1. On the Margins: Verse Poems; 2. On the Margins: Prose Poems; 3. Mixed Messages: Hearing Voices; 4. Form: Neoformalism Revisited; 5. History Matters: A Minority Report; 6. Louise Glück: The Death of Romanticism; 7. Trafficking in the Radiant: The Spiritualizing of American Poetry; 8. Czeslaw Milosz: The Late Style; 9. Strategic Fictions: The Mobile Architecture of Frank O'Hara's Poetry; 10. C.K. Williams and John Ashbery: On the Edge of Romanticism and Postmodernism; 11. Olena Kalytiak Davis: Revising Tradition--the Retro-New; Notes
Summary
In this capacious and energetic volume, Ira Sadoff argues that poets live and write within history, our artistic values always reflecting attitudes about both literary history and culture at large. History Matters does not return to the culture war that reduced complex arguments about human nature, creativity, identity, and interplay between individual and collective identity to slogans. Rather, Sadoff peels back layers of clutter to reveal the important questions at the heart of any complex and fruitful discussion about the connections between culture and literature
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219)
