The news from poems : essays on the 21st-century American poetry of engagement /

"The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This "engaged" poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change, to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan...

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Tác giả khác: Gray, Jeffrey, 1944- (Biên tập viên), Keniston, Ann, 1961- (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press [2016]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.9227505
Mục lục:
  • Introduction : Contemporary poetry and the public sphere / Jeffrey Gray and Ann Keniston
  • Part one : Redefining the political. Homeland insecurity and the poetry of engagement / Eleanor Wilner
  • The poetry of engagement and the politics of reading / Vernon Shetley
  • Twenty-first-century ecopoetry and the scalar challenges of the anthropocene / Lynn Keller
  • Part two : Redefining authorship. The politics of docupoetry / Joseph Harrington
  • "Hands off" : official language in contemporary poetry / Jeffrey Gray
  • Delivering difficult news / Bob Perelman
  • Part three : Redefining identity. Frank Bidart's poetics of engagement / Steven Gould Axelrod
  • Beyond Katrina : ecopoetics, memory, and race / James McCorkle
  • Claudia Rankine and the body politic / Elisabeth A. Frost
  • Part four : Redefining poetics. Echo revisions : repetition, politics, and the problem of value in contemporary engaged poetry / Ann Keniston
  • Ambivalence and despair / Kevin Prufer
  • Getting the world into the poem : information, layering, and the composite poem / Tony Hoagland.