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Title The news from poems : essays on the 21st-century American poetry of engagement / edited by Jeffrey Gray and Ann Keniston.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

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Description x, 256 pages ; 23 cm
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Summary "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 and Iraq, to the increasing corporatization of U.S. culture. The News from Poems brings together newly commissioned essays by eminent poets and scholars of poetry and serves as a companion volume to an earlier anthology of engaged poetry compiled by the editors. Essays by Bob Perelman, Steven Gould Axelrod, Tony Hoagland, Eleanor Wilner, and others reveal how recent poetry has redefined our ideas of politics, authorship, identity, and poetics. The volume showcases the diversity of contemporary American poetry, discussing mainstream and experimental poets, including some whose work has sparked significant controversy. These and other poets of our time, the volume suggests, are engaged not only with public events and topics but also with new ways of imagining subjectivity, otherness, and poetry itself"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Poetics.
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
Poetics. (OCoLC)fst01067682
Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Gray, Jeffrey, 1944- editor.
Keniston, Ann, 1961- editor.
ISBN 9780472073184 hardcover ; acid-free paper
0472073184 hardcover ; acid-free paper
9780472053186 paperback ; acid-free paper
0472053183 paperback ; acid-free paper
9780472122196 electronic book
Standard No. 40026414606

 
    
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