Stephen Fredman asserts in his work that American poetry is
groundless - that each generation of American poets faces the
problem of identity anew and has to discover fresh meaning for
itself. His argument focuses on four pairs of poets -
Eliot/Williams, Thoreau/Olson, Emerson/Duncan and Whitman/Creeley -
and points out that although the later ones all were influenced by
their predecessors to some extent, ultimately their poetry is,
paradoxically, grounded in an essential groundlessness. In order to
demonstrate how approaches to groundlessness have persisted over
time, Fredman explores the various measures taken by these American
poets to provide a provisional ground upon which to construct their
poetry: inventing idiosyncratic traditions, forming poetic
communities, engaging in polemical prose, assessing all the
dimensions of particular places and treating words as emblematic
and mysterious objects. At the very core of the book stands Charles
Olson, whose work so dramatically articulates the whole range of
issues arising from the American poet's anxious search for and
resistance t, an authentic and unified tradition.
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