Introduction : A Speaking Whole / Michael Hinds and Stephen Matterson -- 1. Binding Emily Dickinson / Domhnall Mitchell -- 2. Fit Compositions : Whitman's Revisions to Drum-Taps / Eldrid Herrington -- 3. "To make it mean me" : Narrative Design in North of Boston / Stephen Matterson -- 4. Lustra : Work and Text / Stephen Wilson -- 5. Intentionality as Sensuality in Harmonium / Charles Altieri -- 6. The Accidental Bridge : Hart Crane's Theory of the Lyric / Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos -- 7. William Carlos Williams's An Early Martyr : The Descent Beckons / Ron Callan -- 8. Selected Poems (The 1955) : Randall Jarrell's Book of the Dead / Michael Hinds -- 9. "It's life in death to be bound, delivered, published" : Robert Lowell's Revisions of Notebook 1967-68 / Gareth Reeves -- 10. "Our lives inseparable" : The Contingent World of Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems / Lucy Collins -- 11. Empire, Sublimity, and the Look of Things in Amy Clampitt's The Kingfisher / Justin Quinn -- 12. "What I wanted was nothing to do with monuments" : Erring and Lyn Hejinian's The Guard / Nerys Williams -- 13. Prometheans Unbound : Touching Books in Jorie Graham's Swarm and Susan Howe's "Scattering As Behaviour Toward Risk" / Nick Selby -- Afterword : The Book as Architecture / Charles Bernstein.
0
"Rebound: The American Poetry Book is a pioneering collection of new essays that, by aiming interpretation to incorporate an awareness of the context in which individual poems are embedded in the book challenges established ways of reading American lyric poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
American poetry-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Books and reading-- United States-- History-- 20th century.