Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

List of contents

1. The emergence of 'the new poetry' John Timberman Newcomb; 2. Modern American archives and scrapbook modernism Bartholomew Brinkman; 3. Experimental modernism Alan Golding; 4. The legacy of New York Cary Nelson; 5. The modern American long poem Anne Day Dewey; 6. Objectivist poetry and poetics Rachel Blau DuPlessis; 7. American poetry and the popular front Alan Wald; 8. Tracking the fugitive poets Kieran Quinlan; 9. Midcentury modernism Stephen Burt; 10. American confessional verse Michael Thurston; 11. Black mountain poetry Kaplan Harris; 12. Beat poetry and the San Francisco renaissance Maria Damon; 13. The black arts movement and black aesthetics Evie Shockley; 14. New York School and American surrealist poetics Edward J. Brunner; 15. Land, place, and nation: toward an indigenous American poetics Janet McAdams; 16. Transpacific and Asian American counterpoetics Yunte Huang; 17. Language poetry Barrett Watten; 18. Poet-critics and bureaucratic administration Evan Kindley.

About the author

Walter Kalaidjian is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past and editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism (Cambridge, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: Walter Kalaidjian
• Assisted by: Walter Kalaidjian (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107040366
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04036-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature: history & criticism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets