This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States. Close reading is the primary method. The figures discussed in the body of the book were born from 1911 to the post-war years after 1945. The volume proceeds from Marshall McLuhan as a poet though Douglas LePan, Ted Hughes, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Tom King, Forrest Gander to Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, Fred Wah...