Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry by Ann Keniston

Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry

Contemp North American Poetry

Ann Keniston

228 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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From Sylvia Plath's depictions of the Holocaust as a group of noncohering "bits" to AIDS elegies' assertions that the dead posthumously persist in ghostly form and Susan Howe's insistence that the past can be conveyed only through juxtaposed "scra...

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