James Longenbach is the Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester. In addition to a forthcoming volume of poems called Threshold, he is the author of Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things (OUP, 1991), Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism (OUP, 1988), and Modernist Poetics of History.

Named a 1998 Outstanding Academic Book by Choice

"This authoritative book should be read by anyone interested in contemporary US poetry."--Choice

"Modern Poetry After Modernism elucidates the recent arrangement of tradition and its individual talents. Longenbach understands creativity not as a combative but as a productive encounter between the poet and the past. Recognizing a common debt to modernism, Longenbach brings together a striking range of American poetry and reads it with uncommon insight."--Bonnie Costello, Boston University

"James Longenbach has given us a thrillingly responsive, generous, revisionary and enlarged version of American poetries after modernism. Make room on your bookshelf next to Randall Jarrell's Poetry and the Age, John Berryman's The Freedom of the Poet, and Richard Howard's Alone With America for this work of critical acuity and high empathic imagination."--Edward Hirsch, University of Houston

"Longenbach is, throughout this work, a model of critical judiciousness and generosity."--American Literature

"Clearly written...[an] extremely perceptive collection of essays."--Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University