New York, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. “This book starts from the assumption that poetics are enabling discourses that support intellectual projects in which poetry as such is not always the horizon. For the three poets I discuss in these pages, Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson, poetry is a means to an end; that end includes the utopian prospect of a renewal of society..... More