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The Bloomsbury handbook of contemporary American poetry /

With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry cov...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Svonkin, Craig (Editor), Axelrod, Steven Gould, 1944- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023].
Series:Bloomsbury handbooks.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews.
Poets, American > 21st century > Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod
  • A conversation with Marjorie Perloff / Susan McCabe, Brian Reed, and Steven Gould Axelrod
  • The feminist poetry movement in America / Bethany Hicok
  • American poetry and war / Cary Nelson
  • Experimental Asian American poetry / Josephine Nock-Hee Park
  • Undisciplined writing : Postwar Prose Poetry / Michel Delville
  • Lowell's turtles / Stephanie Burt
  • Subjectivity and identity in New York School poetry / Terence Diggory
  • Jewish American poetry and the late 20th century canon / Hilene Flanzbaum
  • The autobiographical prose of post-WWII poets / Grzegorz Kość
  • Queer poetry after 1945 / Laura Westengard
  • From shingled hippo to gay unicorn : self-othering in Bob Kaufman and other Beats / Craig Svonkin
  • Multilingual American poetry and poetics / Maria Lauret
  • The black art of confession / Steven Gould Axelrod
  • National anthology wars and West Coast anthologies / Bill Mohr
  • Binding nation-states : poetry anthologies of Hawai'i, 1966-2018 / Stanley Orr
  • The poetics of Chicana daughterhood : Cherríe Moraga and Lorna Dee Cervantes / Lisette Ordovica Lasater
  • Mitsuye Yamada / Steven Gould Axelrod, Craig Svonkin, and Traise Yamamoto
  • Marilyn Nelson / Craig Svonkin
  • Rae Armantrout / Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
  • Lorna Dee Cervantes / Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
  • Marilyn Chin / Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
  • Geof Huth / Joseph Thomas, Jr.
  • Juan Delgado / Craig Svonkin
  • Claudia Rankine / Andrew Lyndon Knighton
  • Crisosto Apache / Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod
  • Joshua Jennifer Espinoza / Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
  • A conversation with Stephanie Burt / Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod
  • Ecopoetics : in and against the American grain / James McCorkle
  • Economies of scale : contemporary poetry and the marketplace / Ann Keniston
  • Contemporary children's poetry : a colloquy / Craig Svonkin, Mike Cadden, Richard Flynn, Michael Heyman, Krystal Howard, Michael Joseph, JonArno Lawson, Lissa Paul, and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
  • Claiming their space : contemporary Arab American poetry and poetics / Richard Hishmeh
  • The rise of award-winning black poets / Howard Rambsy II
  • The fourth wave in Native American poetics / Erika Wurth
  • Recent trends in Jewish American poetry / Norman Finkelstein
  • What is the queer confessional? / Jan Leonard Maramot Rodil
  • Poetry translation and poet-translators / Brian Reed
  • Prosthetic poetics : contemporary poetry of disability / Jessica Lewis Luck
  • Data dump : poetry and information in the 21st century / Jeffrey Gray.