This critical work considers the role played by elements that might be considered aberrational in a poet's oeuvre. With an introductory essay exploring the natu

These are poems of family, of romantic hope and disappointment, of parenthood, and of grief that move from a childhood in Nebraska in which a father strides int

What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essa

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and c