Download or read book Changing Subjects written by Srikanth Reddy and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Subjects contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device, ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.