Amy Paeth

The American Poet Laureate

A History of U.S. Poetry and the State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The American Poet Laureate shows how the state has been the silent center of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 173mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780231194396
• ISBN-10: 0231194390
• Artikelnr.: 66996940

Autorenporträt

Amy Paeth

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. State Verse Scandals: The Bollingen Affair and Postwar Poets at the
Library of Congress, 1945-1956
2. Inaugurating National Poetry: Robert Frost and Cold War Arts, 1956-1965
3. The Politics of Voice: The Poet-Critic, the Creative Writer, and the
Poet Laureate, 1965-1990
4. Civil Versus Civic Verse: National Projects of U.S. Poets Laureate,
1990-2022
Epilogue: "An Invisible Berlin Wall"-the Cold War, the U.S. Inaugural Poem,
and the Future of State Verse
Appendix I: Occupants of the U.S. National Poetry Office
Appendix II: Fellows in American Letters at the Library of Congress
Appendix III: U.S. Inaugural Poets
Notes
Bibliography
Index