Introduction. Modernist Revolutions: American Poetry and the Paradigm of the New

‘Literature is news that STAYS news’Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934 By bringing together such critical touchstones as Modernism, Revolution(s), and the New, this issue seeks to draw attention to one of the foundational mirages of the modernist experience, that of a clear-cut, definitive, history-bound Modernist revolution. Rather than engage in yet another attempt to pin down an ultimate definition or to settle the debate regarding the blurry timeframe of early, high, late (let alone post-) ..