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.

Product details

• Authors: Walter Kalaidjian
• Assisted by: Walter Kalaidjian (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107683280
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68328-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies