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Title The Cambridge companion to American poetry since 1945 / edited by Jennifer Ashton
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2013
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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 238 pages)
Series Cambridge companions to literature
Contents Periodizing Poetic Practice since 1945 / Jennifer Ashton -- From the Late Modernism of the "Objectivists" to the Proto-postmodernism of "Projective Verse" / Mark Scroggins -- Confessional Poetry / Deborah Nelson -- Surrealism as a Living Modernism / Charles Altieri -- The San Francisco Renaissance / Michael Davidson -- Three Generations of Beat Poetics / Ronna C. Johnson -- The Poetics of Chant and Inner/Outer Space / Margo Natalie Crawford -- Feminist Poetries / Lisa Sewell -- Ecopoetries in America / Nick Selby -- Language Writing / Steve McCaffery -- American Poetry and Its Institutions / Hank Lazer -- The Contemporary "Mainstream" Lyric / Christina Pugh -- Poems in and out of School / Oren Izenberg -- Rap, Hip Hop, Spoken Word / Michael W. Clune
Summary The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years. This Companion sheds new light on the Beat, Black Arts and other movements while examining institutions that govern poetic practice in the United States today. The text also introduces seminal figures like Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery and Gwendolyn Brooks while situating them alongside phenomena such as the 'academic poet' and popular forms such as spoken word and rap, revealing the breadth of their shared history. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to post-war and late twentieth-century American poetry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Form Electronic book
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Author Ashton, Jennifer, 1964-
ISBN 9781139032674 (electronic bk.)
1139032674 (electronic bk.)
Other Titles American poetry since 1945