“. . . not revisions but one thorough-going and far-reaching revision—of the course of American poetry through centuries, as commonly understood. It is polemical but good-humored, lightly and racily written but with passion, deeply serious, discerning and timely.”
—Donald Davie
Visions and Revisions of American Poetry
$19.95
Lewis Turco
978-0-938626-50-3 (paper)
July 1986
1986 Melville Cane Award for Literary Criticism