Description: Innovative study that sees much of twentieth-century American poetry as enacting, in language, pragmatic philosophy.
Review Quotes: A sensitive and imaginative study, responsive to the vast potentiality of aesthetic and poetic commentary inherent in the midst of pragmatism, which has always been, and continues to be, a strongly Emersonian poetic philosophy. It is an ambitious and useful attempt to fuse the various strands of the discussions of pragmatist poetics and to open up new connections.-- "POLISH JOURNAL FOR AMERICAN STUDIES"