Whether Thersites in Homer's Iliad, Wilfred Owen in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” or Allen
Ginsberg in “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” poets have long given solitary voice against the brutality …

" Some of the most innovative works of poetry and art in the postwar period (1945-1970)
engaged in a'contextual practice'-both a way of making art and a new relationship between …

In Reading Duncan Reading, thirteen scholars and poets examine, first, what and how the
American poet Robert Duncan read and, perforce, what and how he wrote. Harold Bloom …

For my contribution to the present volume, I was requested to write about the image of
Russia in Cold War film. This request I can only meet in part, since in my material—which for …

Duncan's correspondence with Denise Levertov for understanding the evolution of cold war
poetics from the domestic focus of 1950s poetic culture through the political poetry of the …

Abstract Disabled poet Larry Eigner makes striking use of the space of the page to create
poetry that operates in a visual as well as linguistic register. Many critics have read Eigner's …

This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan.
Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the …

From the formalization of Cold War civil defense to the rise of homeland security, emergency
management in the United States has always been structured by power and …

The poem, titled “September 1961” and eventually published in Levertov's O Taste and See
(1964), was written after HD suffered a stroke that left her mute in the last months of her life …

1Rachel Blau DuPlessis writes that Levertov, in working with Western and patriarchal forms
of consciousness and myth, only offers a “blurred shadow of a critique,” failing to break with …