The obligation toward the difficult whole: postmodernist long poems

1: The obligation toward the difficult whole

Angels in America: James Merrill's The changing light at sandover

Pop (up) figures: Melvin Tolson's Harlem Gallery and Edward Dorn's Gunslinger

4: Archaeologies of knowledge: Geoffrey Hill's Mercian hymns and Armand Schwerner's The tablets

5: How (not) to read a postmodernist long poem: John Ashbery's "The skaters"

6: Will the revolution be televised? Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend and Bruce Andrew's "confidence trick"

7: The silent woman: Susan Howe's The Europe of trust

Elements of postmodernist poetry.