Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry

Abstract

1. Self and sensibility in contemporary poetry 2. The dominant poetic mode of the late seventies 3. The pressure to transform 4. The paradoxes of contemporary antiromanticism 5. Robert Creeley's poetics of conjecture: the pains and pleasures of staging a self at war with its own lyric desires 6. John Ashbery: discursive rhetoric within a poetics of thinking 7. Self-reflection as action: the recent work of Adrienne Rich 8. Epilogue: Criticism and contemporary poetry Afterword.

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