Poems in Their Place: Intertextuality and Order of Poetic Collections

With essays by 13 leading scholars, this collection establishes the grounds for a new kind of poetics that considers the poetry book itself - the concept and the material fact - as an object of interpretation. The authors argue that the decisions poets make about the presentation of their works play a meaningful role in the poetic process and therefore should figure as part of the reading experience.

The common practice of approaching poems chronologically, as they are presented in anthologi...