The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-00-918003-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Cambridge Companions to Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry and Politics shows how American poets have addressed political phenomena since 1900. This book helps students, teachers, and general readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics. Offering detailed case studies, this book discusses the relationships between poetry and social views found in work by well-established authors such as Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as lesser known, but influential figures such as Muriel Rukeyser. This book also emphasizes the crucial role contemporary African-American poets such as Claudia Rankine and leading spoken word poets play in documenting political themes in our current moment. Individual chapters focus on specific political issues - race, institutions, propaganda, incarceration, immigration, environment, war, public monuments, history, technology - in a memorable and teachable way for poetry students and teachers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The space of public memory: monuments, memorials, and American poetry from 'The New Colossus' to Black Lives Matter Christopher Spaide; 2. Poetry and propaganda Florian Gargaillo; 3. Depression-era poetics and the politics of How to Read Sarah Ehlers; 4. The politics and poetics of revolution Mark Steven; 5. Wallace Stevens, Stanley Burnshaw, and the defense of Poetry in an age of economic determinism Alec Marsh; 6. The line of wit Stephanie Burt; 7. U.S. poets on war and peace: from the Spanish-American War to Afghanistan Mark Van Wienen; 8. Institutions of American poetry: from the pound era to the program era Loren Glass; 9. African American political poetries Matthew Calihman; 10. Our terribly excluded blue: Gwendolyn Brooks and the politics of poetic framing J. Peter Moore; 11. Poetry and the prison industrial complex Michael S. Collins; 12. 'Oh Say Can You See:' seeing and the unseen in Citizen: an American Lyric Kathy Lou Schultz; 13. The political resonances of Hip Hop and Spoken Word Dallan Donnell; 14. Language as politics in 20th and 21st century American poetry Tyrone Williams; 15. Renovating the open field: innovative poets reclaiming an erasure history Wanda O'Connor; 16. Transcultural Agency Maria Dikcis; 17. Ecopoetry now: three American poets Ann Fisher-Wirth; 18. The politics and history of digital poetics: copyright, authorship, anti-lyric Orchid Tierney.

Über Autor(innen)

Morris, Daniel
Daniel Morris is Professor of English at Purdue University, USA. He is author of The Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self (1995), Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art (2002), The Poetry of Louise Glück: A Thematic Introduction (2006; 2021), After Weegee: Essays on Contemporary Jewish American Photographers (2011), Lyric Encounters (2013), Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media (2016), and Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Work on Paper (2019). He has also edited or co-edited four other books as well as published four volumes of poetry, including Hit Play (2015) and Blue Poles (2019).