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Garrick Davis's "Terminal Diagrams" may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Here, the art of poetry has been mechanized just as the world has been mechanized. In poem after poem, he examines the artistic possibilities of the machine, and its alterat...

Marked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached frombiographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was thedominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. "Praising It New "is the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fiftyyears. It is the perfect introduction for students to thebest American poetry criticism of the twentieth century.

Marked by a rigorously close textual reading, detached frombiographical or other extratextual material, New Criticism was thedominant literary theory of the mid-twentieth century. "Praising It New "is the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fiftyyears. It includes important essays by such influential poets and critics asT. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, W. K. Wim...

Garrick Davis's "Terminal Diagrams" may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Whether his subject is a car accident on the freeways of Los Angeles or the Book of Revelation transmitted by television, Davis's stanzas conjure a kind of futuristic noir. ...

Child of the Ocmulgee is a selection of Freda Quenneville's nature poetry. The myriad small details of the physical world formed the symbolic landscape from which she created a lyrical and affirmative body of work over three decades. The poems are presented in roughly chronological order and provide an ideal introduction to one of the most neglected poets of the Pacific Northwest.