American Poetry and Culture, 1945–1980

Robert von Hallberg

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$37.00 • £29.95 • €33.50

ISBN 9780674030121

Publication Date: 10/15/1988

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288 pages

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Introduction: Centers
1. Audience, Canon
2. Robert Creeley and John Ashbery: Systems
3. Tourists
4. James Merrill: “Revealing by Obscuring”
5. Politics
6. Robert Lowell’s History
7. Pop Culture
8. Edward Dorn: “This Marvellous Accidentalism”
Conclusion: Suburbs
Notes
Credits
Index

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