ABOUT THIS BOOK

In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition which cannot properly be situated within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition dominating the early twentieth century.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

MARJORIE PERLOFF is the Sadie Dernham Patek professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books of literary criticism, including Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric and The Dance of the Intellect, both published by Northwestern University Press.

REVIEWS

"Ms. Perloff's case is seductively and persuasively argued; her writing is by turns luminous, impassioned, and instructive. The essays on Rimbaud and John Ashbery are among my favorites in this highly intriguing . . . book." —Antioch Review

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

One
Unreal Cities

Two
“Trouver une langue”: The Anti-paysage of Rimbaud

Three
Poetry as Word-System: The Art of Gertrude Stein

Four
“Lines Converging and Crossing”: The “French” Decade of William Carlos Williams

Five
“No Edges, No Convexities”: Ezra Pound and the Circle of Fragments

Six
“The Space of a Door”: Beckett and the Poetry of Absence

Seven
“Mysteries of Construction”: The Dream Songs of John Ashbery

Eight
“No More Margins”: John Cage, David Antin, and the Poetry of Performance

Index

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