"In American Poetry Observed, twenty-six major contemporary poets lead us to a clearer understanding of their elusive craft and, in the process, reveal a great

A discussion of the poetry of John Ashbery. Showing that a sense of occasion - the sense that the poem should be fit for its occasion - was a binding principle

"In American Poetry Observed, twenty-six major contemporary poets lead us to a clearer understanding of their elusive craft and, in the process, reveal a great

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