On the Outskirts of Form

"An astute reader of late-20th-century American poetry, Davidson covers a lot of ground, in terms of both composition and range of interest. ... Recommended"—R.T. Prus, Choice

"Michael Davidson's compelling essays provide a rich fund of insight into American poetry from Oppen to Ashbery, from Objectivism to transnational poetries. Written with eloquence and concision, these pages deftly fuse formal analysis with cultural history."—Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics

"Michael Davidson's compelling essays provide a rich fund of insight into American poetry from Oppen to Ashbery, from Objectivism to transnational poetries. Written with eloquence and concision, these pages deftly fuse formal analysis with cultural history."—Jahan Ramazani, author of A Transnational Poetics

"Michael Davidson's superbly written book compellingly expands the category 'American poetry' into a global(ized) context, a 'cosmopoetics.' On the Outskirts of Form represents one direction in which scholarship on American poetry must move if it is to remain intellectually and culturally relevant, and Davidson is on the cutting edge of that future."—Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry