After New Formalism
Table of Contents

Traditions

Adrienne Rich, "Format and Form"

Marilyn Nelson, "Owning the Masters"

Daniel Hoffman, "Wings of a Phoenix: Rebellion and Resuscitation in Postmodern American Poetry"

Paul Lake, "Verse That Print Bred"

Dana Gioia, "The Poet in an Age of Prose"

Mark Jarman, "Aspects of Robinson"

Carol Miller, "Towards an Alternative Formalist Tradition: The Other Harlem Renaissance"

Poetics

Carolyn Beard Whitlow, "Blues in Black and White"

Molly Peacock, "From Gilded Cage to Rib Cage"

Robert McPhillips, "The New Formalism and the Revival of the Love Lyric"

Timothy Steele, "Boundless Wealth From a Finite Store: Meter and Grammar"

David Mason, "Other Voices, Other Lives: The Shorter Narrative Poem"

Annie Finch, "Metrical Diversity"

James Cummins, "The Sestina"

Directions

Kathrine Varnes, "Feminist Formalist: A Critical Oxymoron?"

Kevin Walzer, "Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism"

Frederick Feirstein, "Psychoanalysis and Poetry"

Allison Cummings, "Playing Tennis in Asbestos Gloves: Women, Form and Subjectivity in the 1980’s"

Frederick Turner, "The Inner Meaning of Poetic Form"

Christian Wiman, "An Idea of Order"

Anne Stevenson, "The Trouble With a Word Like Formalism"