Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place

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Alexander has produced a nuanced and insightful book; through reading it, a reader becomes a better reader of these poets and a better reader of place. -- Eric Magrane, New Mexico State University * cultural geographies * Alexander boldly expands the temporal and spatial reach of late modernist poetry by tracing its lively dialogues with geography. The analysis of six diverse poets traverses wastelands; excavates geological and cultural strata; navigates waves, currents and archipelagos; explores edge lands and floodwaters; treads thrown together streets; tunes in to multifarious soundscapes and encounters spirits of place where they dwell and journey. Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, this generative study maps nuanced negotiations of place with sharpened relevance for times of globalisation and ecological crisis. This book opens up new channels of possibility through which to hear the here here. -- Mandy Bloomfield, University of Plymouth