American poets in the 21st century : the new poetics / edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell.
Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Wesleyan poetry.
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| Summary: | Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780819567277 0819567272 9780819567284 0819567280 |