A new map of the territory of poetry, an array of known and unknown contemporary classics, "American Poetry Since 1950" is filled with strange texts and startli

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Challenging the common perception of poets as standing apart from the mainstream of American culture, Robert von Hallberg gives us a fresh and unpredictable ass