City poems and American urban crisis : 1945 to the present / Nate Mickelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mickelson, Nate, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics.

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Cities and towns in literature.

Civil rights in literature.

Urban poor in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algar n and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America's changing urban experience since 1945. City Poems and American Urban Crisis brings post-war American poetry into conversation with developments in city planning, activism, and urban theory to demonstrate that taking city poetry seriously as a mode of analysis and critique can enhance our attempts to produce more just and equitable urban futures. Poets covered include: Miguel Algar n, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wanda Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis MacAdams, Charles Olson, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: City poems and American urban crisis

Writing around Williams: Paterson and experimental urban poetics

Community and crisis in Los Angeles poetry

The curious languages of New York: George Oppen and critical urban theory

Reading Bronzeville: poetics of Neighborhood I

Organizing El Barrio and the Loisaida: poetics of Neighborhood II

Poetry and progressive planning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781350055810

1350055816

9781350055803

1350055808

9781350055797

1350055794

OCLC:

1035215778