Examines how twentieth-century American poets' European travel shaped the terrain of modern American poetry.
Introduction: Off to Europe: European Travel from Modernism to Postwar Poetry -- 1. Approaching Europe: The Poetic Mapping of Storied Spaces -- 2. Sight and Site: Between Poet and Tourist -- 3. "Solidified Nostalgia": Pastness, Historicity, and the Cliché -- 4. Relational Geographies: Place Names, Power, and Poetic Proximities -- 5. Geology and Landscape: On European Soil -- 6. Concluding Remarks: Post-Europe? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index