Description: An investigation of how American poetry since Whitman makes its beginnings, with what means and to which political and aesthetic ends, and how it addresses fundamental questions about what the future is and how it may be affectednow.
Brief description: SASCHA PÖHLMANN is Professor of North American Literature and Culture at TU Dortmund University, Germany.
Review Quotes: Employing philosophical theory and deft, detailed analysis, Pöhlmann explores 'future-founding poetry, ' an aesthetic and political mode of 'making and marking beginnings' ... of cultivating the future in the present; of negotiating the extremes of uncertainty and determinacy; of connecting beginnings to an 'imagination of place.-- "CHOICE"