Title: Mysticism in postmodernist long poems : contemplation of the divine /
Authors: Moffett, Joe
Year: 2014
Subjects: Epic poetry, American History and criticism.; American poetry History and criticism; Postmodernism (Literature) United States; Mysticism in literature.; Spirituality in literature; American poetry; Epic poetry, American; Mysticism in literature.; Postmodernism (Literature); Spirituality in literature.; United States
Contents: Introduction: Mysticism and the twentieth-century long poem -- The late modernism of H.D.'s trilogy and a postmodernist response: Brenda Hillman's death tractates -- In language I encounter God: Robert Duncan's textual mysticism in Passages -- The kitsch man cometh: myth and popular culture in James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover -- Charles Wright's God fearing agnostic in the Appalachian book of the dead -- Questioning western spirituality: Galway Kinnell's The book of nightmares andGary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end.