American poets in the 21st century : the new poetics / edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rankine, Claudia, 1963-

Sewell, Lisa, 1960-

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1sound disc (4 3/4 in.)

Other Title:

American poets in the twenty-first century

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years. American Poets in the 21st Century will serve as a useful and enlightening guide for any reader interested in new American poetry. The enclosed CD includes each of the thirteen poets reading their work.

Contents:

Mark Levine

Recording devices : Mark Levine's poetics of evidence / Sabrina Orah Mark

Karen Volkman

A space for desire and the mutable self : Karen Volkman's experimentations with the lyric / Paul Otremba

D.A. Powell

Here is the door marked heaven : D.A. Powell / Stephen Burt

Peter Gizzi

Peter Gizzi's city : the political quotidian / Cole Swensen

Juliana Spahr

All together/now : writing the space of collectivities in the poetry of Juliana Spahr / Kimberly Lamm

Joshua Clover

The pleasures of not merely circulating : Joshua Clover's political imagination / Charles Altieri

Kevin Young

Mixed-up medium : Kevin Young's turn-of-the-century American triptych / Rick Benjamin

Tracie Morris

Improvisational insurrection : the sound poetry of Tracy Morris / Christine Hume

Myung Mi Kim

Making common the commons : Myung Mi Kim's ideal subject / Warren Liu

Stacy Doris

The poetics of radical constraint and unhooked bedazzlement in the writing of Stacy Doris / Caroline Crumpacker

Susan Wheeler

Susan Wheeler's open source poetics / Lynn Keller

Mark Nowak

Mark Nowak : radical documentary praxis [redux] / David Ray Vance

Kenneth Goldsmith

Affect and autism : Kenneth Goldsmith's reconstitution of signal and noise / Raymond McDaniel

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780819567277

0819567272

9780819567284

0819567280

OCLC:

77522717