The collection gathers together the work of a number of scholars, poets, and teachers on the challenges and productive possibilities that arise when teaching contemporary writing today.

In a masterful blending of lyric and narrative, Sea of Faith ranges across interior states and external worlds.

"After ten years of teaching, one contributor describes the impact her involvement in the writing program had on her career as "a massive paradigm shift: teaching centered not on what I knew, but what somebody else needed to know."

"--Richard Terdiman, University of California, Santa Cruz "Every chapter in this book is at once richly informative from a cultural and historical point of view and the purveyor of close textual readings that are as convincing as they are ...

" "Bob Perelman, both as a poet and an extremely intelligent and witty analyst of the language writing movement, writes as someone genuinely hoping to explain his subject to readers who are not already converts."--Roger Gilbert

This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional areas of humanities theory and method, scholarship and education.