Precipitations
Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice
Devin Johnston
Wesleyan University Press
distributed by
University Press of New England
Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Sleep of Reason
• H.D.’s War Trilogy: Poetry Becomes Telepathy
• “Sublime Undoing”: Robert Duncan and Diction
• Resistance to the Message: James Merrill’s Occult Epic
• Risk: Recent Approaches to Sublimity
• Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
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