poetics as an industry of technical fantasy

Revolutionary Road comes to poetry. Received the below book release from Northwestern UP a few months ago. Though the book is titled Contemporary Poetics its essays are pretty much all from the 80s and 90s, the heyday of postmodernism. The title is one thing, but I was struck again this morning by the self-congratulating and revolutionary-seeming nature of the book's subtitle: "Redefining the