The Cambridge companion to American poetry since 1945 / edited by Jennifer Ashton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashton, Jennifer, 1964- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years. This Companion sheds new light on the Beat, Black Arts and other movements while examining institutions that govern poetic practice in the United States today. The text also introduces seminal figures like Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery and Gwendolyn Brooks while situating them alongside phenomena such as the 'academic poet' and popular forms such as spoken word and rap, revealing the breadth of their shared history. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to post-war and late twentieth-century American poetry.

Contents:

Periodizing American poetry since 1945 / Jennifer Ashton

From the late modernism of the objectivists to the proto-postmodernism of 'Project Verse' / Mark Scroggins

Confessional poetry / Deborah Nelson

Surrealism as a living modernism: what the New York poets learned from two generations of New York painting / Charles Altieri

The San Francisco renaissance / Michael Davidson

Three generations of Beat poetics / Ronna C. Johnson

The poetics of chant and inner/outer space: the Black Arts movement / Margo Natalie Crawford

Feminist poetries / Lisa Sewell

Ecopoetries in America / Nick Selby

Language writing / Steve McCaffery

Post-1945 American poetry and its institutions / Hank Lazer

The contemporary 'mainstream' lyric / Christina Pugh

Poems in and out of school: Allen Grossman and Susan Howe / Oren Izenberg

Rap, hip-hop, spoken word / Michael W. Clune

Poetry of the twenty-first century: the first decade / Jennifer Ashton.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-48537-1

1-139-03267-4