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This will be a signal book in its exploration of the persistence of 'song' and 'music' as provocations to poetry, particularly the venturesome and innovative work of the poets here scrutinized which largely avoid the more obvious poetic petitions to musicality by way of formal versification. The legacy unpacked here is of compelling interest, and Zamsky has proven to be a most discerning, articulate, and dedicated chronicler. -- Jed Rasula, author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century Zamsky's book does an excellent job of teasing out the Orphic imperatives that run so strongly through what we still call the New American poetries of the twentieth century's second half. Wedded to that inextricably is Zamsky's deep thinking about the roles of music, ranging from what we in the classical world still call the New Music through Bop and on to what we once called 'The New Thing in jazz. --Aldon Lynn Nielsen, author of The Inside Songs of Amiri Baraka

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Robert L. Zamsky is associate professor of English at New College of Florida. His scholarship has appeared in Modernism/modernity, Callaloo, Arizona Quarterly, and Texas Studiesin Language and Literature.

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