In this collection, fourteen essayists break new ground by focusing on a new generation of postmodern poets who are clearly indebted to John Ashbery's work. This concentration on Ashbery's influence on contemporary American poetry provides new methods for interpreting and understanding his poetic achievement

Susan M. Schultz is an assistnat professor of English at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She has published three chapbooks of poetry, including Another Childhood (Leave Books, 1993). Her essays on modern and comtemporary American poetry have appeared in Raritan, Arizona Quarterly, Sagetrieb, and elsewhere. In 1992 she was president of the Hawaii Literary Arts Council.