American House Poem, 1945-2021

This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence of an "American house poem," which offers uniquely vivid expressions of the expansion of homeownership as a core tenet of American prosperity and democracy.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Gwendolyn Brooks and Housing as a Civil Right


• 2: Unmaking a Home: Adrienne Rich and the Suburbs


• 3: An Immaterial World: James Merrill, Finance, and the Renovation of the House Poem


• 4: The American Poetic Subprime: Contemporary Poetry, Race, and Genre


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Walt Hunter is the author of Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization (2019) and Some Flowers (2022). He is the recipient of awards from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the James Merrill House, the South Carolina Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities/Teagle Foundation. He is Chair of English and Associate Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.

Summary

This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence of an "American house poem," which offers uniquely vivid expressions of the expansion of homeownership as a core tenet of American prosperity and democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Prof Walt (Chair Hunter, Walt Hunter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2023
• EAN: 9780192856258
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285625-8
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets