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A Companion to American Poetry
"This impressive Companion to American Poetry presents cutting-edge work by distinguished senior scholars and exciting emerging ones. Collectively, its thematically organized essays—on topics ranging from transnationalism to Trans poetry, from African American spirituals to rethinking the Anthropocene—brilliantly display poetry’s intellectual depth, formal variety, emotional power, and diverse social engagements."
—Lynn Keller, Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mary McAleer Balkun (Edited by), G McAleer Balkun (Author), Jeffrey Gray (Edited by), Paul Jaussen (Edited by)
9781119669685, Wiley
Hardback, published 12 May 2022
528 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2.9 cm, 1.03 kg
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.
1 Introduction 1 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 3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 18 4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 28 5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy 39 Section 2: Poetry and The Transcendent 51 6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists 53 7 Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies 68 8 "Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God": Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief 82 9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry 95 Section 3: Experimentalisms, Early and Late 107 10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom 109 11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity 120 12 "Making a Way": The Black Mountain Review and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities 133 13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative 146 14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora 157 15 Wearables and Modernist Poetry’s Prototypes 166 16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry 184 Section 4: Poetry and Identity 199 18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry 216 19 Trans Poetry and Poetics 230 Section 5: Transnational Poetry 243 20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons 245 21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 257 22 "Audience Distant Relative": Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form 269 23 "A Little Room in a House Set Aflame": American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century 283 24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry 294 Section 6: Poetry and the Arts 303 25 "Sketch of a Man on a Platform": The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem 305 26 Poetry in the Public Square 320 27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment 332 28 "Compared to What": Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics 344 29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies 354 Section 7: Nature and After 367 30 Reading God's Book of the World 369 31 "Sharing with the Ants": American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay 379 32 Post-Natural Modernism 390 33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings 402 Section 8: Poetry of Engagement 415 34 American War Poetry 417 35 Lynch Fragments 431 36 Indigenous Docupoetry: "'Last Indian War' in Verse" 442 37 "It's Been a While": Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders 455 38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 469 Index 484
Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen
Tamara Harvey
Wendy Raphael Roberts
Adam Bradford
Lauri Scheyer
Wendy Martin and Camille Meder
Bruce Ronda
Norman Finkelstein
Nikki Skillman
Bob Perelman
Johanna Winant
Joshua Hoeynck
Kaplan Harris
Tyrone Williams
Margaret Konkol
Steven Gould Axelrod
17 The Black Quatrain and America's Racialized Poetics 201
Ben Glaser
Daniel Enrique Pérez
Trace Peterson
Margaret Noodin
Susan M Schultz
Mayumo Inoue
Walt Hunter
Sarah Dowling
Andrew Epstein
Stephen Cushman
Avery Slater
Andrew DuBois
Susan Cooke Weeber
Robert Daly
Christoph Irmscher
Mark C Long
Margaret Ronda
Cary Nelson
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Kimberly Blaeser
Michael Dowdy
David Lau
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
