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Re-situating Olsons work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.

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Re-situating Olsons work in relation both to his own moment and to current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olson provide a major re-assessment of his place in postwar poetry and culture.

(Paperback)

Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. The book establishes enthusiasm as a defining feature of American literature. It shows how enthusiasm is fundamental to the circulation of culture. It -- .

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Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. The book establishes enthusiasm as a defining feature of American literature. It shows how enthusiasm is fundamental to the circulation of culture. It -- .

(Paperback)

John Ashbery is America's greatest living poet. He is also greatly misunderstood. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - this book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion.