“Steel makes a compelling case for Guillaume Apollinaire’s far-reaching impact on a century’s worth of U.S. poetry. This highly original and historically rigorous book traces the migration of Apollinaire’s influence stateside. Persuasively argued and elegantly written, The Poetics of Scale offers an invaluable contribution to the study of American poetry and poetics.”—Stephen Voyce, author, Poetic Community: Avant-Garde Activism and Cold War Culture
“A sophisticated, colorful exploration of the reception of Apollinaire’s poetry in the United States. Steel tracks the complex shifts and perplexities involved in the attraction to Apollinaire’s intimate, fluent modernism with its fusion of charismatic I-voice and choral voicing, its paratactic form, and socially conscious, affect-inflected acoustics of radical ambience.”—Adam Piette, University of Sheffield