Places in the making : a cultural geography of American poetry / Jim Cocola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cocola, Jim, author.

Series:

New American canon

The new American canon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Poetics--History--20th century.

Poetics.

History.

Poetics--History--21st century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 264 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]

Summary:

Places in the Making maps a range of twentieth- and twenty-first century American poets who have used language to evoke the world at various scales. While other poetic traditions tend toward more idealized and transcendent lyric registers, the study traces a poetics centered upon more particular and situated engagements with actual places and spaces. Author Jim Cocola posits place as a pivotal axis of identification and heralds emplacement as a crucial model for cultural, intellectual and political activity in a period marked and imperiled by a tendency toward dislocation. Focusing on poets of international reputation, such as Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, Charles Olson, and William Carlos Williams, Places in the Making also considers work by more recent figures, including Kamau Brathwaite, Joy Harjo, Myung Mi Kim, and Craig Santos Perez. In its larger comparative, multiethnic, and transnational emphases, this book addresses questions of particular moment in American literary and cultural studies and aspires to serve as a catalyst for further interdisciplinary work connecting geography and the humanities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Prospects 23

1 Modernism on the Mountaintop / Wallace Stevens Stevens, Wallace, William Carlos Williams Williams, William Carlos 27

2 Pacific Counterpoints / Robinson Jeffers Jeffers, Robinson, Pablo Neruda Neruda, Pablo 42

3 Projective vs. Reflective Verse / Charles Olson Olson, Charles, Lorine Niedecker Niedecker, Lorine 59

Part 2 Translocalities 77

4 Versions of Prague / Allen Ginsberg Ginsberg, Allen, Roqae Dalton Dalton, Roqae 81

5 The Cosmic Caribbean / Kamau Brathwaite Brathwaite, Kamau, Ernesto Cardenal Cardenal, Ernesto 98

6 Indigenous Claims / Gary Snyder Snyder, Gary, Joy Harjo Harjo, Joy 116

Part 3 Zones 135

7 From Aztlán / Gloria Anzaldúa Anzaldúa, Gloria, Jimmy Santiago Baca Baca, Jimmy Santiago 139

8 Remilitarized Poems / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, Myung Mi Kim Kim, Myung Mi 155

9 Forget Your Pastoral / Haunani-Kay Trask Trask, Haunani-Kay, Craig Santos Perez Perez, Craig Santos 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609384111

1609384113

OCLC:

922572314