Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "Not needed except as meaning": memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry
  • The holocaust again: literal and figurative fragmentation in Sylvia Plath's Ariel
  • "To feel with a human stranger": asymmetrical witness and address in Adrienne Rich's Dark fields of the republic
  • "I am the ghost who haunts us": prosopopeia and the poetics of infection in AIDS poetry
  • "Deep into the lateness now": likeness and lateness in Jorie Graham's Region of unlikeness
  • "Spectral scraps": displacement, metonymy, and the elegiac in Susan Howe's The midnight
  • Coda: "To begin the forgetting": belatedness beyond memory.