{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-poetry-hardback-9781119669685","title":"A Companion to American Poetry (Hardback) 9781119669685","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to American Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This impressive \u003ci\u003eCompanion to American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLynn Keller\u003c\/b\u003e, Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary McAleer Balkun (Edited by), G McAleer Balkun (Author), Jeffrey Gray (Edited by), Paul Jaussen (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781119669685, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e528 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 2.9 cm, 1.03 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1: Poetry before \"American Poetry\" 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTamara Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWendy Raphael Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Bradford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLauri Scheyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2: Poetry and The Transcendent 51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists 53\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWendy Martin and Camille Meder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce Ronda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 \"Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God\": Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief 82\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorman Finkelstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNikki Skillman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3: Experimentalisms, Early and Late 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBob Perelman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohanna Winant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 \"Making a Way\": \u003ci\u003eThe Black Mountain Review\u003c\/i\u003e and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoshua Hoeynck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaplan Harris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTyrone Williams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Wearables and Modernist Poetry’s Prototypes 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret Konkol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven Gould Axelrod\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 4: Poetry and Identity 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17 The Black Quatrain and America's Racialized Poetics 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Glaser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Enrique Pérez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Trans Poetry and Poetics 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrace Peterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 5: Transnational Poetry 243\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret Noodin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 257\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan M Schultz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 \"Audience Distant Relative\": Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form 269\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMayumo Inoue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 \"A Little Room in a House Set Aflame\": American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century 283\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalt Hunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Dowling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 6: Poetry and the Arts 303\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 \"Sketch of a Man on a Platform\": The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Epstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Poetry in the Public Square 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Cushman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvery Slater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 \"Compared to What\": Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew DuBois\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Cooke Weeber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 7: Nature and After 367\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Reading God's Book of the World 369\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Daly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 \"Sharing with the Ants\": American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay 379\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristoph Irmscher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Post-Natural Modernism 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark C Long\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings 402\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMargaret Ronda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 8: Poetry of Engagement 415\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 American War Poetry 417\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCary Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Lynch Fragments 431\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAldon Lynn Nielsen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Indigenous Docupoetry: \"'Last Indian War' in Verse\" 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKimberly Blaeser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 \"It's Been a While\": Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders 455\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Dowdy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 469\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Lau\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 484\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other 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