American Poetry after Modernism
The Power of the Word
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- Author: Albert Gelpi, Stanford University, California
- Date Published: February 2019
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108706223
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Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich. Gelpi argues that a distinctly American poetic tradition was solidified in the later half of the twentieth century, thus severing it from British conventions. In Gelpi's view, what distinguishes the American poetic tradition from the British is that at the heart of the American endeavor is a primary questioning of function and medium. The chief paradox in American poetry is the lack of a tradition that requires answering and redefining - redefining what it means to be a poet and, likewise, how the words of a poem create meaning, offer insight into reality, and answer the ultimate questions of living. Through chapters devoted to specific poets, Gelpi explores this paradox by providing an original and insightful reading of late-twentieth-century American poetry.
Read more- Explores the work of fourteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich
- Focuses on a wide range of poets, some of which have been underrepresented in past studies
- Explores the connection between American poets and the cultural crises of the twentieth century
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- Date Published: February 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108706223
- length: 326 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Twentieth-century poetics: an overview
2. The language of crisis: Robert Lowell and John Berryman
3. The language of flux: Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery
4. The language of incarnation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Everson
5. The language of witness: Adrienne Rich
6. The language of vision: Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan
7. The language of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: Robert Creeley, Michael Palmer, Lyn Hejinian, Robert Grenier, Susan Howe, and Fanny Howe.
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