Ghostly figures
Subtitle: memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry
By: Ann Keniston
Series: Contemporary North American poetry series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781609383534; 9781609383541
Subjects: Memory in literature; History and criticism; Literature and history; American poetry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Not needed except as meaning": memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry; title: The holocaust again: literal and figurative fragmentation in Sylvia Plath's Ariel; title: "To feel with a human stranger": asymmetrical witness and address in Adrienne Rich's Dark fields of the republic; title: "I am the ghost who haunts us": prosopopeia and the poetics of infection in AIDS poetry; title: "Deep into the lateness now": likeness and lateness in Jorie Graham's Region of unlikeness; title: "Spectral scraps": displacement, metonymy, and the elegiac in Susan Howe's The midnight; title: Coda: "To begin the forgetting": belatedness beyond memory.