Ghostly figures : memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Keniston, Ann, 1961- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
Series:	Contemporary North American poetry series.
Subjects:	American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. Memory in literature. Literature and history > United States > History > 20th century. American poetry. Literature and history. United States. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: "Not needed except as meaning": memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry
The Holocaust again: literal and figurative fragmentation in Sylvia Plath's Ariel
"To feel with a human stranger": address and asymmetrical witness in Adrienne Rich's Dark fields of the republic
"I am the ghost who haunts us": prosopopeia and the poetics of infection in AIDS poetry
"Deep into the lateness now": likeness and lateness in Jorie Graham's Region of unlikeness
"Spectral scraps": displacement, metonymy, and the elegiac in Susan Howe's The midnight
Coda: "To begin the forgetting": belatedness beyond memory.