Author: Keller, Lynn
Title: Re-making It New : Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (1989). Reprint, orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x,298 pp. Minor rubbing, slight binding soil, VG ¶ 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 & Ashberry; "We must, we must be moving on":Ashberry's Divergence from Stevens & Modernism; "Piercing glances into the life of things": The Continuity Between Moore & Bishop; "Resolved, dissolved...in that watery, dazzling dialectic": Bishop's Divergence from Moore & Modernism; "A small (or large) machine made of words": The Continuity Between Williams & Creeley; "Let / go, let go ot it": Creeley's Divergence from Williams & Modernism; "Those who love illusion / And know it": The Continuity Between Auden and Merrill; "I knew // That life was fiction in disguise": Merrill's Divergence from Auden & Modernism; Conclusion. "The possibility of free declamation anchored / To a dull refrain": The Postmodernist Estate.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, Postmodern Poetry, Modernism, Modernist Poetics, Ashberry Stevens, Auden Williams, Merrill Creeley, Moore Bishop