The Poet Resigns : Poetry in a Difficult Time.

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Instead of an Introduction: Letter of Resignation -- Situations of Poetry -- The Discursive Situation of Poetry -- Poetry and Politics, or: Why are the Poets on the Left? -- The Aesthetic Anxiety: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Idea of Politics -- Public Faces in Private Places: Notes on Cambridge Poetry -- Negative Legislators: Exhibiting the Post-Avant -- When Poets Dream of Power -- Can Poems Communicate? -- The Poet in the University: Charles Bernstein's Academic Anxiety -- The State of the Art -- To Criticize the Poetry Critic -- Seeing the New Criticism Again -- Poetry / Not Poetry -- The Death of the Critic -- Marginality and Manifesto -- Poets and Poetry -- A Portrait of Reginald Shepherd as Philoctetes -- True Wit, False Wit: Harryette Mullen in the Eighteenth Century -- Emancipation of the Dissonance: The Poetry of C. S. Giscombe -- In the Haze of Pondered Vision: Yvor Winters as Poet -- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Poetry -- Power and the Poetics of Play -- Neruda's Earth, Heidegger's Earth -- The Decadent of Moyvane -- Modernist Current: On Michael Anania -- Laforgue / Bolaño: The Poet as Bohemian -- Oppen / Rimbaud: The Poet as Quitter -- Remembering Robert Kroetsch -- Myself I Sing -- Nothing in this Life -- My Laureates.

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