Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Reconstruction S.)

A groundbreaking study of the most challenging, abstract, playful, difficult and moving postmodern poetry from USA and UK; these essays are carefully developed readings that focus on the complexities of particular poems and make bold cultural connections. New Work on John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ted Berrigan, David Antin, Denise Riley, Tom Raworth, J.H. Prynne, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and many others.