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The news from poems : essays on the 21st-century American poetry of engagement / edited by Jeffrey Gray and Ann Keniston.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--21st century.
- Politics and literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--21st century.
- Literature and society.
- Poetics.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 256 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- "The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This "engaged" poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change, to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the increasing corporatization of U.S. culture. The News from Poems brings together newly commissioned essays by eminent poets and scholars of poetry and serves as a companion volume to an earlier anthology of engaged poetry compiled by the editors. Essays by Bob Perelman, Steven Gould Axelrod, Tony Hoagland, Eleanor Wilner, and others reveal how recent poetry has redefined our ideas of politics, authorship, identity, and poetics. The volume showcases the diversity of contemporary American poetry, discussing mainstream and experimental poets, including some whose work has sparked significant controversy. These and other poets of our time, the volume suggests, are engaged not only with public events and topics but also with new ways of imagining subjectivity, otherness, and poetry itself"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Redefining the Political
- 1 Homeland Insecurity and the Poetry of Engagement / Eleanor Wilner Wilner, Eleanor 13
- 2 The Poetry of Engagement and the Politics of Reading / Vernon Shetley Shetley, Vernon 26
- 3 Twenty-First-Century Ecopoetry and the Scalar Challenges of the Anthropocene / Lynn Keller Keller, Lynn 47
- Part 2 Redefining Authorship
- 4 The Politics of Docupoetry / Joseph Harrington Harrington, Joseph 67
- 5 "Hands Off": Official Language in Contemporary Poetry / Jeffrey Gray Gray, Jeffrey 84
- 6 Delivering Difficult News / Bob Perelman Perelman, Bob 104
- Part 3 Redefining Identity
- 7 Frank Bidart's Poetics of Engagement / Steven Gould Axelrod Axelrod, Steven Gould 123
- 8 Beyond Katrina: Ecopoetics, Memory, and Race / James McCorlde McCorlde, James 143
- 9 Claudia Rankine and the Body Politic / Elisabeth A. Frost Frost, Elisabeth A. 168
- Part 4 Redefining Poetics
- 10 Echo Revisions: Repetition, Politics, and the Problem of Value in Contemporary Engaged Poetry / Ann Keniston Keniston, Ann 195
- 11 Ambivalence and Despair / Kevin Prufer Prufer, Kevin 217
- 12 Getting the World into the Poem: Information, Layering, and the Composite Poem / Tony Holland Holland, Tony 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472073184
- 0472073184
- 9780472053186
- 0472053183
- 9780472122196
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.9227505
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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