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"Montgomery explores short-form American poetry that falls outside the usual categories of lyric on the one hand and of distinctive movements such as imagism and objectivism on the other hand. [...] Standout chapters include a superb reconsideration of H. D. that argues she far exceeds Ezra Pound in the art of the small. [...] The concluding chapter on Rae Armantrout offers one of the best contextualized readings of this poet's ""always contingent"" craft this reviewer has encountered. Summing Up: Recommended--J. N. Barron, The University of Southern Mississippi ""CHOICE"" Will Montgomery shows us the plenitude in brevity. In this excellent genealogy of the modernist short poem he balances inventiveness of interpretation with precise analysis of the dynamics of form and semantic inference. He brilliantly guides the reader through the micro-processes of interruption, swerve and negation that inform the short poem.-- ""Peter Middleton, University of Southampton"""

Montgomery explores short-form American poetry that falls outside the usual categories of lyric on the one hand and of distinctive movements such as imagism and objectivism on the other hand. [...] Standout chapters include a superb reconsideration of H. D. that argues she far exceeds Ezra Pound in the art of the small. [...] The concluding chapter on Rae Armantrout offers one of the best contextualized readings of this poet's ""always contingent"" craft this reviewer has encountered. Summing Up: Recommended--J. N. Barron, The University of Southern Mississippi ""CHOICE"" Will Montgomery shows us the plenitude in brevity. In this excellent genealogy of the modernist short poem he balances inventiveness of interpretation with precise analysis of the dynamics of form and semantic inference. He brilliantly guides the reader through the micro-processes of interruption, swerve and negation that inform the short poem.-- ""Peter Middleton, University of Southampton""

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Will Montgomery, Reader in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Royal Holloway, University of London.

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