Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; THE SYMPOSIUM; The Character of the Poet; What Modernism Offers the Contemporary Poet; Keats and the Use of Poetry; Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical "Choice" and Historical Formation; In Search of an Absolute; Horses with Wings; Blood on the Cutting Room Floor; What is This Poet?; Poetry as Symbolic Action; PANEL DISCUSSION; All nine participants, plus comoderators Hank Lazer and Gregory Jay; ADDITIONAL ESSAYS; Poetry and Ambition; Critical Theory and Contemporary American Poetry; Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors
Summary
This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world
