The Cambridge companion to twenty-first-century American poetry / edited by Timothy Yu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yu, Timothy (Professor of literature), editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Poetics--21st century--History and criticism.

Poetics.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the current century. While having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, twenty-first-century poetry takes place in new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. This collection highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American poetry today. Essays on African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Native American poetries respond to the centrality of issues of race and indigeneity in contemporary American discourse. Other essays explore poetry and feminism, poetry and disability, and queer poetics. The environment, capitalism, and war emerge as poetic preoccupations, alongside a range of styles from spoken word to the avant-garde, and an examination of poetry's place in the creative writing era"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. New Black Aesthetics: Post-Civil Rights African American Poetry / Keith D. Leonard

2. Traditions of Innovation in Asian American Poetry / Michael Leong

3. Locations of Contemporary Latina/o Poetry / David A. Colon

4. Sovereign Poetics and Possibilities in Indigenous Poetry / Mishuana Goeman

5. Changing Topographies, New Feminisms, and Women Poets / Ann Vickery

6. The Nearly Baroque in Contemporary Poetry / Stephanie Burt

7. Disability Aesthetics and Poetic Practice / Declan Gould

8. Queer Poetry and Bioethics / Sarah Dowling

9. Trauma and the Avant-Garde / Sueyeun Juliette Lee

10. Blockade Chants and Cloud-Nets: Terminal Poetics of the Anthropocene / Jonathan Skinner

11. Give Me Poems and Give Me Death: On the End of Slam(?) / Anthony Blacksher

12. Anti-capitalist Poetry / Christopher Nealon

13. Of Poetry and Permanent War in the Twenty-First-Century / Stephen Voyce

14. Poetry in the Program Era / Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

15. The Future of Poetry Studies / Dorothy Wang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781108482097

1108482090

9781108741958

1108741959

OCLC:

1157576012