Probing the activity of textual self-recovery among the debris of history and fantasy, visuality and desire, and culture and corporeality, The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self imparts something of the startling beauty and the raw urgency of poetry writing across the broad modern period.

Susan Harrow is a senior lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Wales Swansea.

'Susan Harrow's The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self constitutes a serious and valuable contribution to the current scholarship devoted to poetic modernity. This is a fine piece of critical thinking that invites us to rethink in subtle but very important ways the work of the three canonical writers and one, Réda, whose crowning is imminent.'

John Stout, Comparative Literature Programme, McMaster University:

'The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self is one of the best pieces of scholarship on modernist poetry to have been written in the last twenty years. Susan Harrow offers thorough, fascinating, and lucid commentary on the representative texts of this poetic tradition, while highlighting concerns — such as the inscription of the body in language — that have a particular resonance in contemporary literary studies. On every page, Harrow offers fascinating and thought-provoking insights into the work of these poets, and in each case, her arguments are original and convincing.'