Why do modern poets quote from dictionaries in their poems? How has the tape recorder changed the poet's voice? What has shopping to do with Gertrude Stein's ae

The book includes over 600 poems by 65 american poets writing in the period between 1900 and 1950.

In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional per

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

In this study Daniel R. Schwarz argues that the narrative and representational aspects of Stevens's poetry have been neglected in favour of readings that stress