I Am Otherwise: The Romance Between Poetry And Theory After the Death of the Subject

Looking at the work of several contemporary American poets, Blazer (American literature and critical theory, Grand Valley State U.) argues that the main psychological modes of contemporary poetry and the postmodern poet are anxiety, irony, abjection, and destitution. He also says that while poets of the past related to nature, self, or philosophy, those of today unite lyric feeling with literary theory itself. There is no index. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)