{"product_id":"a-concise-companion-to-twentiethcentury-american-poetry-9781405120029","title":"A Concise Companion to TwentiethCentury American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eConcise Companion\u003c\/i\u003e gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by prominent specialists in the field.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a fresh and comprehensive reading of modern American poetry in several important ways. It takes in the whole of the twentieth century instead of dividing into decades like the twenties and thirties or into periods labelled Modernism and Postmodernism. Moreover, instead of focusing on individual poets, the successive chapters relate an often overlapping range of poets to the crucial and defining cultural issues within which the poetry took form and direction and to which the poetry spoke. Stephen Fredman has assembled an extraordinary group of critics to write the chapters. There is nothing else like this rich and trenchant book in the field of modern poetry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlbert Gelpi, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf I had to recommend a single book on the culture of twentieth-American poetry to students or colleagues, I would choose Stephen Fredman's Concise Companion. Fredman wisely decided to treat the entire century as a whole rather than adopting the usual Modernist\/Postmodernist division or treating decades and poets separately. From the opening \"Wars I Have Seen\" to the final treatment of philosophy and theory in U.S. poetry, Fredman's contributors carefully examine the intersecting worlds of our poetry-- the New York art world, the impact of various diasporas, and the curious intersections with politics, gender, and religion. Yet the poetry itself always comes first, and no reader can fail to profit from these clearly written, concise, and truly expert chapters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarjorie Perloff, Stanford University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Fredman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Wars I Have Seen 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Nicholls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican poets’ response to war, with particular attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen, Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Herd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow US poets responded and reacted to British poetry, in particular, Romanticism, focusing on Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Cleanth Brooks, Charles Olson, Frank O’Hara, and Adrienne Rich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Golding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscusses the relationship between poets and the academy, with attention to Ezra Pound, the Fugitives,\u003cbr\u003eCharles Olson, the anthology wars, creative writing programs, African-American poetry, Charles Bernstein,\u003cbr\u003eand Language poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Feminism and the Female Poet 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLynn Keller and Cristanne Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century poetry developed in the context of evolving feminist thought and activism, as demonstrated in the work of Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Sonia Sanchez, and Harryette Mullen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Queer Cities 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaria Damon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe relationship between gay urban sensibility and poetic form, with discussions of Gertrude Stein, Djuna\u003cbr\u003eBarnes, Hart Crane, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Allen Ginsberg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian M. Reed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetic responses to New York’s avant-garde tradition in the visual arts, with attention to Mina Loy, William\u003cbr\u003eCarlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, John Cage, John Ashbery, Jackson Mac Low, and Susan Howe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRowan Ricardo Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiscusses the effect that the blues and jazz have had on twentieth-century African-American poets, including Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Gayl Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Michael Harper.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 151\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. Robert Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ongoing arrival of populations from beyond US borders and internal migration, as reflected in\u003cbr\u003epoetry – WASP to African American, Jewish to Latino\/a, Euro-American to Native American.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism 173\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Filreis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA survey of the complex association of modern poetry and American communism (and anticommunism),\u003cbr\u003eincluding discussions of Muriel Rukeyser, William Carlos Williams, Genevieve Taggard, Wallace Stevens, and Kenneth Fearing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Fredman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy mysticism appeals to American poets and how it affects their poetry, focusing upon Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, John Cage, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and Fanny Howe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Poets and Scientists 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Middleton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShows how poets, including William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Robert Creeley, Charles\u003cbr\u003eOlson, Ron Silliman, Myung Mi Kim, and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge have responded to modern technology and the new sciences of physics and genetics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Davidson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddresses the role of ideas and theory in modern poetry, with examples drawn from Wallace Stevens,\u003cbr\u003eEzra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, the New Critics, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 252\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407857328471,"sku":"9781405120029","price":96.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405120029.jpg?v=1730500757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-concise-companion-to-twentiethcentury-american-poetry-9781405120029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}