Poetry of Disturbance - The Discomforts of Postwar American Poetry

In this book, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant shift from a visual to oral emphasis.

List of contents

1. Poems that disturb; 2. Disturbing modernism; 3. Orality and copia; 4. Disturbing voices; 5. A queer directness; 6. The long poem.

About the author

David Bergman is Professor of English at Towson University and the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature and The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture. He is also the editor of John Ashbery's Reported Sightings and The Violet Quill Reader. Bergman has won the Lambda Literary Prize for Men on Men 2000 and the George Elliston Poetry Prize for Cracking the Code, the first of four books of poetry. His essays have appeared in American Literary History, American Literature, and Raritan.

Summary

In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature.

Product details

• Authors: David Bergman, Bergman David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107086685
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08668-5
• No. of pages: 189
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)