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The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry
This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British …
The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History
Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early …
Poetry and Work
Poetry and Work offers a timely and much-needed re-examination of the relationship between work and poetry. The volume questions how lines are drawn between work and non-work, how …
Poetry After the Invention of América
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. …
Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson
This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social …
A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities
This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, …
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies
Modernist Poetry, Gender and Leisure Technologies: Machine Amusements explores how modernist women poets were inspired by leisure technologies to write new versions of the gendered …
A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser
A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser …
Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural …
Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse
Addresses the early twentieth-century intersection of scientific and religious discourse exploring literary modernism through the lens of cultural history, focusing on the works of …
Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry
Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, …
(Re:)Working the Ground
This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the …