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Book SynopsisThis collection of brand new essays by a leading team of experts encourages readers to appreciate the rich formal, thematic, and ethnic diversity and inclusivity of post-war American poetry. It provides fresh critical perspectives on, and ways of reading, familiar poets such as Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear'; Eleanor Spencer PART I: POETS 1. 'Whims & emergencies, discoveries, losses': The Poetry of John Berryman; Stephen Matterson 2. Robert Lowell: Protean Poet; Steven Gould Axelrod 3. Making and Making Do: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop; Linda Anderson 4. Adrienne Rich: Poetry and Social Change; Wendy Martin and Lauren Morrison 5. 'A work of art that the critic cannot even talk about': The Poetry of John Ashbery; Eleanor Spencer 6. Sylvia Plath in the Early Twenty-First Century; Tracy Brain 7. 'You Asked Me to Sing Then You Seemed Not to Hear': African American Poetry since 1945; Lauri Ramey PART II: FORM AND GENRE 8. The Great Divide? Post-confessional and Language Poetry; Paul Batchelor 9. The Art of Exclusion: Form and Prosody in American Poetry Since 1970; David Caplan 10. The American Elegy; Stephen Regan PART III: MOVEMENTS AND MOMENTS 11. 'Singularly rich': Donald Allen's The New American Poetry 1945-1960; Rory Waterman 12. American Poetry Now, or, Not Quite The End Of The World; Stephen Burt Further Reading Index.
