A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY A Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Organized thematically, the Companion's thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and…mehr
A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY A Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day. Organized thematically, the Companion's thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries. Both a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship, A Companion to American Poetry is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
MARY MCALEER BALKUN is Professor of English at Seton Hall University. Her research interests include early American literature and culture, the American gothic and grotesque, and digital humanities. She is the author of The American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture, as well as articles on early American literature, digital humanities, and pedagogy. She is co-editor of several anthologies, including Women's Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and Transformative Digital Humanities. JEFFREY GRAY is Professor of English at Seton Hall University. He is the author of Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry and of many articles on American and Latin American literature. He is the editor and co-editor of several anthologies, including The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry and The News from Poems: Essays on the New American Poetry of Engagement. PAUL JAUSSEN is Associate Professor of Literature at Lawrence Technological University, where he co-directs the "Humanity+Technology" lecture series. His teaching and research focus is on poetry and poetics, literary theory, and the relationship between literature and technology. He is the author of Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital. His essays and reviews have appeared in New Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, and ASAP/J, among others.
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1 Introduction 1 Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen Section 1: Poetry before "American Poetry" 5 2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton 7 Tamara Harvey 3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 18 Wendy Raphael Roberts 4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 28 Adam Bradford 5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy 39 Lauri Scheyer Section 2: Poetry and The Transcendent 51 6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists 53 Wendy Martin and Camille Meder 7 Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies 68 Bruce Ronda 8 "Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God": Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief 82 Norman Finkelstein 9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry 95 Nikki Skillman Section 3: Experimentalisms, Early and Late 107 10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom 109 Bob Perelman 11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity 120 Johanna Winant 12 "Making a Way": The Black Mountain Review and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities 133 Joshua Hoeynck 13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative 146 Kaplan Harris 14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora 157 Tyrone Williams 15 Wearables and Modernist Poetry's Prototypes 166 Margaret Konkol 16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry 184 Steven Gould Axelrod Section 4: Poetry and Identity 199 17 The Black Quatrain and America's Racialized Poetics 201 Ben Glaser 18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry 216 Daniel Enrique Pérez 19 Trans Poetry and Poetics 230 Trace Peterson Section 5: Transnational Poetry 243 20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons 245 Margaret Noodin 21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 257 Susan M Schultz 22 "Audience Distant Relative": Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form 269 Mayumo Inoue 23 "A Little Room in a House Set Aflame": American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century 283 Walt Hunter 24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry 294 Sarah Dowling Section 6: Poetry and the Arts 303 25 "Sketch of a Man on a Platform": The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem 305 Andrew Epstein 26 Poetry in the Public Square 320 Stephen Cushman 27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment 332 Avery Slater 28 "Compared to What": Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics 344 Andrew DuBois 29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies 354 Susan Cooke Weeber Section 7: Nature and After 367 30 Reading God's Book of the World 369 Robert Daly 31 "Sharing with the Ants": American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay 379 Christoph Irmscher 32 Post-Natural Modernism 390 Mark C Long 33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings 402 Margaret Ronda Section 8: Poetry of Engagement 415 34 American War Poetry 417 Cary Nelson 35 Lynch Fragments 431 Aldon Lynn Nielsen 36 Indigenous Docupoetry: "'Last Indian War' in Verse" 442 Kimberly Blaeser 37 "It's Been a While": Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders 455 Michael Dowdy 38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 469 David Lau Index 484
1 Introduction 1 Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen Section 1: Poetry before "American Poetry" 5 2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton 7 Tamara Harvey 3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 18 Wendy Raphael Roberts 4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 28 Adam Bradford 5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy 39 Lauri Scheyer Section 2: Poetry and The Transcendent 51 6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists 53 Wendy Martin and Camille Meder 7 Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies 68 Bruce Ronda 8 "Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God": Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief 82 Norman Finkelstein 9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry 95 Nikki Skillman Section 3: Experimentalisms, Early and Late 107 10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom 109 Bob Perelman 11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity 120 Johanna Winant 12 "Making a Way": The Black Mountain Review and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities 133 Joshua Hoeynck 13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative 146 Kaplan Harris 14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora 157 Tyrone Williams 15 Wearables and Modernist Poetry's Prototypes 166 Margaret Konkol 16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry 184 Steven Gould Axelrod Section 4: Poetry and Identity 199 17 The Black Quatrain and America's Racialized Poetics 201 Ben Glaser 18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry 216 Daniel Enrique Pérez 19 Trans Poetry and Poetics 230 Trace Peterson Section 5: Transnational Poetry 243 20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons 245 Margaret Noodin 21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 257 Susan M Schultz 22 "Audience Distant Relative": Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form 269 Mayumo Inoue 23 "A Little Room in a House Set Aflame": American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century 283 Walt Hunter 24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry 294 Sarah Dowling Section 6: Poetry and the Arts 303 25 "Sketch of a Man on a Platform": The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem 305 Andrew Epstein 26 Poetry in the Public Square 320 Stephen Cushman 27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment 332 Avery Slater 28 "Compared to What": Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics 344 Andrew DuBois 29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies 354 Susan Cooke Weeber Section 7: Nature and After 367 30 Reading God's Book of the World 369 Robert Daly 31 "Sharing with the Ants": American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay 379 Christoph Irmscher 32 Post-Natural Modernism 390 Mark C Long 33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings 402 Margaret Ronda Section 8: Poetry of Engagement 415 34 American War Poetry 417 Cary Nelson 35 Lynch Fragments 431 Aldon Lynn Nielsen 36 Indigenous Docupoetry: "'Last Indian War' in Verse" 442 Kimberly Blaeser 37 "It's Been a While": Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders 455 Michael Dowdy 38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 469 David Lau Index 484
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