Published April 2009

“History Matters: Contemporary Poetry on the Margins of America Culture” Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN-13: 9781587297977 (228pp) From the Publisher: “In plainspoken writing, he [Sadoff] probes the question of the poet’s capacity to illuminate and universalize truth. Along the way, we are called to consider how and why art moves and transforms human beings”

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Table of Contents

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 Gluck: 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
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