The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900

Table of Contents

1. The space of public memory: monuments, memorials, and American poetry from 'The New Colossus' to Black Lives Matter Christopher Spaide
2. Poetry and propaganda Florian Gargaillo
3. Depression-era poetics and the politics of How to Read Sarah Ehlers
4. The politics and poetics of revolution Mark Steven
5. Wallace Stevens, Stanley Burnshaw, and the defense of Poetry in an age of economic determinism Alec Marsh
6. The line of wit Stephanie Burt
7. U.S. poets on war and peace: from the Spanish-American War to Afghanistan Mark Van Wienen
8. Institutions of American poetry: from the pound era to the program era Loren Glass
9. African American political poetries Matthew Calihman
10. Our terribly excluded blue: Gwendolyn Brooks and the politics of poetic framing J. Peter Moore
11. Poetry and the prison industrial complex Michael S. Collins
12. 'Oh Say Can You See:' seeing and the unseen in Citizen: an American Lyric Kathy Lou Schultz
13. The political resonances of Hip Hop and Spoken Word Dallan Donnell
14. Language as politics in 20th and 21st century American poetry Tyrone Williams
15. Renovating the open field: innovative poets reclaiming an erasure history Wanda O'Connor
16. Transcultural Agency Maria Dikcis
17. Ecopoetry now: three American poets Ann Fisher-Wirth
18. The politics and history of digital poetics: copyright, authorship, anti-lyric Orchid Tierney.

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