Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221).

Foreword / Elinor Shaffer -- Inbetween: Locating Göran Printz-Påhlson / Robert Archambeau -- The Meaning of Place: Some Notes on Göran Printz-Påhlson / Lars-Håkan Svensson -- The Words of the Tribe: Primitivism, Reductionism, and Materialism in Modern Poetics -- 1. Linguistic Primitivism in Modernism and Romanticism -- 2. Linguistic Reductionism in Poetry Criticism -- 3. The Material Word: From Imagism to New Criticism to Intertextualism -- 4. The Polity of Metaphor and the Purity of Diction -- Other Prose -- Style, Irony, Metaphor and Meaning -- Realism as Negation -- Historical Drama and Historical Fiction: The Example of Stindberg -- The Canon of Literary Modernism: A Note on Abstraction in the Poetry of Erik Lindegren -- The Tradition of Contemporary Swedish Poetry -- Kierkegaard the Poet -- Surface and Accident: John Ashbery -- The Voyages of John Matthias -- Letters of Blood: Poems -- Part 1: My Interview with I.A. Richards -- Generation -- Televisiondreamroutines -- The Longest-Running Show on Television -- The Enormous Comics -- Poem Unnamed -- Botchuana -- Part 2: Aelius Lamia: Tanka for Robert Hass -- Odradek -- Turning Machine -- Broendal -- Two Prose Poems -- Sir Charles Babbage Returns to Trinity College -- Man-Made Monster Surreptitiously Regarding Idyllic Scene -- Joe Hill in Prison -- Remember the Rosenbergs -- When Beaumont and Tocqueville First Visited Sing-Sing -- Three Baroque Elegies from Gradiva -- Part 3: Comedians -- Songs of Dock Boggs -- In the Style of Scott Skinner -- Acrobats on the Radio -- To John at Summer Solstice, Before His Return -- Part 4: The Green-Ey'd Monster -- Select Bibliography -- A Note on the Text.

"This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic Göran Printz-Påhlson. It was Printz-Påhlson who introduced poetic modernism to Scandinavia, and his essays and poems delve deeply into English, American, and continental modernist traditions. As well as Letters of Blood, the collection includes the full text of "The Words of the Tribe", a major statement on modern poetics, in which Printz-Påhlson explores the significance of primitivism in Romanticism and Modernism, and the nature of metaphor and literary materialism. The collection also includes essays on style, irony, realism, and the relationship between historical drama and historical fiction, as well as studies of American poetry. Printz-Påhlson's poetry in English continues to explore these themes by different, often surprisingly innovative, means."--Publisher's description.

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