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Forms of a World argues that poetic innovations of contemporary Anglophone poetry shape and are shaped by global forces. The poets in this book sense these conditions before they are made fully present and offer various responses to global transformation.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
1. Stolen Landscapes: The Investments of the Ode and the Politics of Land 19
2. Let Us Go: Lyric and the Transit of Citizenship 44
3. The Crowd to Come: Poetic Exhortations from Brooklyn to Kashmir 65
4. The No-Prospect Poem: Poetic Views of the Anthropocene 90
Coda 119
Acknowledgments 129
Notes 133
Bibliography 165
Index 183

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 08/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823282227, 978-0823282227
      ISBN10: 0823282228
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      Literary studies: from c 2000 Globalization

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Forms of a World argues that poetic innovations of contemporary Anglophone poetry shape and are shaped by global forces. The poets in this book sense these conditions before they are made fully present and offer various responses to global transformation.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction 1
      1. Stolen Landscapes: The Investments of the Ode and the Politics of Land 19
      2. Let Us Go: Lyric and the Transit of Citizenship 44
      3. The Crowd to Come: Poetic Exhortations from Brooklyn to Kashmir 65
      4. The No-Prospect Poem: Poetic Views of the Anthropocene 90
      Coda 119
      Acknowledgments 129
      Notes 133
      Bibliography 165
      Index 183

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