Title Writing plural worlds in contemporary U.S. poetry : innovative identities / Jim Keller

Edition First edition Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 229 pages) Contents Introduction : "of being numerous" -- Plural worlds and Aztec-Chicano serial poetry : an emergent protest literature -- Alfred Arteaga and Francisco X. Alarcón : forms of fire and time in the poetic series -- Gods at the crossroads between the self and the world : radical polytheism in N.J. Loftis -- Nathaniel Mackey's agnostic history and "the creaking of the wheel" -- A bridge over worlds : James Thomas Stevens's plural-world particularism -- "A bridge is simple movement" -- Fears of a one-world language Summary This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favor of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Text in English Print version record Subject American poetry -- Minority authors -- History and criticism Experimental poetry, American -- History and criticism Ethnicity in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Literary studies: poetry & poets. POETRY -- American -- General. Literature. American poetry -- Minority authors Ethnicity in literature Experimental poetry, American Identity (Psychology) in literature Kulturkontakt Lyrik Identität Motiv Gedichten. Plurale samenleving. USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230623767 023062376X 9781349376926 1349376922

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