Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms : Poems and Commentary by 65 of America's Greatest Poets

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ISBN 10: 0025702416 ISBN 13: 9780025702417

Published by Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1987

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Title: Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms : Poems ...

Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Includes poems and essays by Cage, Ammons, Updike, Wilbur, Hecht, Oates, Disch, Morgan, Creeley, and Corn

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American poets tend to distrust received forms, yet Lehman, a book critic for Newsweek, notes a resurgence of formalism in American poetry. This anthology contains almost as many different forms as it does poems. John Updike's metrical light verse, Maxine Chernoff's prose poem about phantom pain after the loss of a leg, Dave Morice's six-word drinking song, Mona Van Duyn's ballad of the Maine countryside, along with sonnets, villanelles and exotic structures like fugues and pantoums (a Malayan form) attest to the formal concerns of contemporary poets. Several of the selections are of slight interest apart from the poets' commentaries on them. These glosses reveal that many poets are highly conscious of what they are doing. Among the contributors are Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Pinsky, Richard Wilbur, Amy Clampitt and Robert Creeley. (June
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