Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science

Michael Golston

January, 2008
Cloth, 296 pages, 17 illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-231-14276-2
$50.00 / £34.50

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Phonoscopic Modernism

1. Pulsanda Tellus: Ezra Pound’s Absolutist Rhythms

2. Double Registrations in the River of Blood

3. Machining Convictions: W. B. Yeats’s Sanguineous Rhythms

4. Singing the Crisis Itself

5. Williams’s Measured Interventions

Notes

Bibliography

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Poetry

About the Author

Michael Golston received his bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico, his master's degree from the University of California, Berekeley, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He currently lives in New York City, where he teaches twentieth-century poetry and poetics at Columbia University.

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