Table Of Contents:
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxiv

Part I

1 "To Get the News from Poems": Poetry as Genre 3(14)

Jahan Ramazani

2 What Was New Formalism? 17(17)

David Caplan

3 Meter 34(19)

Peter L. Groves

4 The Stanza: Echo Chambers 53(11)

Debra Fried

5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode 64(13)

Ann Keniston

6 English Elegies 77(16)

Neil Roberts

7 The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem? 93(11)

Eve C. Sorum

8 Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 104(13)

Lisa Sewell

9 On "the Beat Inevitable": The Ballad 117(22)

Romana Huk

10 Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina 139(18)

Nicole Ollier

11 The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds 157(14)

Maria Johnston

12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle 171(17)

Karen Jackson Ford

13 Looping the Loop: Terza Rima 188(18)

George Szirtes

14 Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything 206(14)

Michael Hinds

15 "Named Airs": American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart) 220(14)

Meg Tyler

16 African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity 234(16)

Jeff Westover

17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 250(13)

Patrick Jackson

18 Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet 263(14)

David Wheatley

19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku 277(16)

Peter Harris

20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry 293(13)

Geoff Ward

21 "Gists and Piths": The Free-Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry 306(12)

Marie-Christine Lemardeley

22 The Emergent Prose Poem 318(12)

Andy Brown

23 Concrete/Visual Poetry 330(18)

Fiona McMahon

24 Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry 348(13)

Helene Aji

25 Modes of Found Poetry 361(18)

Lacy Rumsey

Part II

26 "Horny Morning Mood": The Aubade and Alba 379(11)

Kit Fryatt

27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne 390(14)

Erik Martiny

28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 404(16)

Rachel Falconer

29 The Aisling 420(15)

Bernard O'Donoghue

30 The Printed Voice 435(11)

Yann Tholoniat

31 Rewriting the People's Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956 446(13)

John Thieme

32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: "Awful but Cheerful" 459(19)

Bonnie Costello

33 Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse 478(12)

Todd Nathan Thompson

34 Poetry and Its Occasions: "Undoing the Folded Lie" 490(15)

Stephen Wilson

35 On Verse Letters 505(16)

Philip Coleman

36 "Containing History": Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre 521(11)

Alex Runchman

37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem 532(11)

Jennifer Clarvoe

38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 543(12)

Rainer Emig

39 Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem 555(13)

Jo Gill

40 "From Arcadia to Bunyah": Mutation and Diversity in the Pastoral Mode 568(16)

Karina Williamson

41 Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry 584(14)

Mark Scroggins

42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 598(16)

Stephen Burt

43 Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum 614

Jonathan Ellis
Index