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This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a ""seen object"" and uses literary and social theory of the 1990's to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it and how the special arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal

English poetry --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- English language --- American poetry --- Semiotics and literature --- Poetics --- Poésie anglaise --- Anglais (Langue) --- Poésie américaine --- Sémiotique et littérature --- Poétique --- Versification --- Written English --- Histoire et critique --- Anglais écrit --- 20th century --- Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- Commonwealth poetry (English) --- Written english --- Literary form --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Commonwealth poetry (English) - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- English language - Written English.