The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry

A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, takes place in new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. Offering a comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the new century, this collection highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American poetry today. Essays on African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries respond to the centrality of issues of race and indigeneity in contemporary American discourse. Other essays explore poetry and feminism, poetry and disability, and queer poetics. The environment, capitalism, and war emerge as poetic preoccupations, alongside a range of styles from spoken word to the avant-garde, and an examination of poetry's place in the creative writing era.

Product details

• Authors: Yu Timothy Yu, Timothy Yu
• Assisted by: Yu Timothy Yu (Editor), Timothy Yu (Editor), Yu Timothy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781108482097
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48209-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary reference works, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literary studies: poetry and poets