Soundworks: race, sound, and poetry in production
"Soundworks takes the many recorded collaborations between African American poets and musicians associated with the long Black Arts era (late-1950s through mid-1970s) as the occasion to reframe the object of black sound studies as the product of material, technical, sensual, and…
The ecopoetry anthology
"An anthology of American poetry about nature and the environment, divided into a historical section with poetry written from roughly the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century and a contemporary section with over 300 poems written since 1960 by a diverse group of more than…
The biography of James Merrill (1926-1995) is that of a young man escaping, but inevitably reproducing, the energies and obsessions of glamorous, powerful parents (his father founded Merrill Lynch), of a gay man inventing his identity against a shifting social and sexual backdro…
Containing 12 essays and an introduction; this work examines the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they have fashioned to challenge commonplace assumptions about gender and cultural authority.
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Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode focuses on Stevens' stance toward the apocalyptic past: his use of and resistance to apocalyptic language. It explores the paradoxical roles of apocalyptic and anti-apocalyptic rhetoric in modernist and postmodernist poetry and theory, pa…
""Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, …
How do we reckon our past without being ravaged by it? How do we use people, and their bodies, to express ourselves?--Publisher website.
"American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics--a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies--have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesti…
"In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned--and aesthetically responsive--to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Re…
"Philosophers and theorists have long recognized both the subversive and the transformative possibilities of friendship, the intimacy of which can transcend the impersonality of such identity categories as race, class, or gender. Unlike familial relations, friendships are chosen…
