Introduction: Mysticism and the twentieth-century long poem -- The late modernism of H.D.'s trilogy and a postmodernist response: Brenda Hillman's death tractates -- "In language I encounter God": Robert Duncan's textual mysticism in "Passages" -- The kitsch man cometh: myth and popular culture in James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover -- Charles Wright's "God fearing agnostic" in the Appalachian book of the dead -- Questioning western spirituality: Galway Kinnell's The book of nightmares andGary Snyder's Mountains and rivers without end.
