The Poetry Beat: Reviewing the Eighties

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. Paperback. Fine with faint semi-crease to front wrap.. Octavo in blue glossy wraps; ix, 226 pages; 21 cm; bibliographical references. Contents: Cabaret of Despair (Sylvia Plath) -- Highballs and Breakdowns (John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell) -- These Tropics Aren't Triste (Victor Hernandez Cruz) -- Camping among the Shades (James Merrill) -- Shimmering Nets (Kit Robinson) -- The Nouveau Abstraction (Gloria Frym, Stephen Rodefer) -- A Small Fist of Words (Robert Creeley) -- Lives of the Poets (John Milton, Robert Browning, W.H. Auden) -- Sllep before Evening (John Ashbery) -- Enigmatic Arguments (John Asbery) -- One Big Movie (Allen Ginsberg) -- More Big Movie (Allen Ginsberg) -- A Bop Colorist (Howard Hart) -- Love, Death and the Muses (Robert Duncan) -- Soul Back Homeward (Robert Duncan) -- From Point A to Point X (Kirby Doyle) -- Mysteries of the Plains (Louise Erdrich) -- Steel against the Dark (W.D. Ehrhart) -- Lightning Bug in a Storm (Ramon Guthrie) -- Peanuts and Allusion (Edard Dorn) -- Owtlaw Metaphysics (Edward Dorn) -- Stalin as Linguist-I -- Stalin as Linguist-II -- Worlds of Up and Down (Thomas McGrath) -- Northern Connection (Sister Goodwin) -- Aerial Spaces and Reverberating Depths (Maureen Owen, Nancy Morejon) -- A Good House (Kenneth Rexroth) -- Urban Pastoral (William Corbett) -- Digging into the Past (Seamus Heaney) -- From Loch Ness to Rusking (Hugh MacDiarmid, Donald Davie) -- Poetry of Exile (Yannis Ritsos, Lorine Niedecker) -- Grounding Transcendence (Rainer Maria Rilke) -- Poet as Narcissus (Rainer Maria Rilke) -- A Public Man (Stephen Spender) -- Poetry as a Performing Art (Dylan Thomas) -- Protecting a Legend (Robert Frost) -- The Romance of Damage (John Wieners, Jim Carroll) -- Subway Troubadour (Paul Blackburn) -- Urban Illuminations (Edwin Denby) -- Total Exposure (James Schuyler) -- The Gift of Breath (Fanny Howe) -- Dramatic Voices (Donald Hall) -- Greating Paradise (Amy Gerstler) -- Traditionalist at the Beath (Timothy Steele) -- Identified Flying Objects (Bob Kaufman) -- Selfless Attention (Gary Snyder) -- Bias for the Microcosmic (Carl Rakosi) -- Romantic with a Cause (Edward Sanders) -- Doing Hard Time for Poetry (Irina Ratushinkskaya) -- Traumatic Youth (Robert Graves) -- Personal Handling (Marsden Hartley) -- Versatile and Doomed (Weldon Kees) -- Still Sounding (H.D., William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers) -- Dark Glory (Robinson Jeffers) -- My Sin (William Everson) -- Pop Hooks (Elain Equi) -- Flung toward Life (Alice Notley) -- The Knot of Fate (Sor Juana) -- Iberian Roots (Salvador Espriu, Pablo Neruda, Victor Hernandez Cruz) -- One True World beyond Betrayal (David Mura) -- Whispered Secrets (Killarney Clary) -- Death's Duties (Raymond Carver) -- Salutary Pessimism in an Administered World (Philip Larkin) -- Lost Dreams (Delmore Schwartz) -- Moving toward Annihilation (John Berryman). // American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. English poetry -- History and criticism. Poetry -- Book reviews. Poésie américaine -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. Poésie anglaise -- Histoire et critique. Poésie -- Recensions de livres. American poetry. English poetry. Poetry. Englisch Lyrik Aufsatzsammlung Geschichte (1980-1990) Review Aufsatzsammlung. reviews (documents) Reviews. Book reviews. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Reviews. Comptes rendus. USA. Englisch. American poetry; 20th century; History and criticism; English poetry; History and criticism; Poetry; Book reviews.