The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry

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With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry covers such topics as: • Major histories and genealogies of post-war poetry – from the language poets and the Black Arts Movement to New York school and the Beats • Poetry, identity and community – from African American, Chicana/o and Native American poetry to Queer verse and the poetics of disability • Key genres and forms – including digital, visual, documentary and children’s poetry • Central critical themes – economics, publishing, popular culture, ecopoetics, translation and biography The book also includes an interview section in which major contemporary poets such as Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein and Claudia Rankine reflect on the craft and value of poetry today. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE Roots and Branches of the Contemporary CHAPTER one A Conversation with Marjorie Perloff (Susan McCabe, Brian Reed, and Steven Gould Axelrod) CHAPTER two The Feminist Poetry Movement in America (Bethany Hicok) CHAPTER three American Poetry and War (Cary Nelson) CHAPTER four Experimental Asian American Poetry (Josephine Nock-Hee Park) CHAPTER five Undisciplined Writing: Postwar Prose Poetry (Michel Delville) CHAPTER six Lowell’s Turtles ( Stephanie Burt) CHAPTER seven Subjectivity and Identity in New York School Poetry (Terence Diggory) CHAPTER eight Jewish American Poetry and the Late Twentieth-Century Literary Canon (Hilene Flanzbaum) CHAPTER Nine The Autobiographical Prose of Poets (Grzegorz Kosc) CHAPTER Ten Queer Poetry after 1945 ( Laura Westengard) CHAPTER eleven From Shingled Hippo to Gay Unicorn: Self-Othering in Bob Kaufman and Other Beats (Craig Svonkin) CHAPTER twelve The National Anthology Wars and West Coast Anthologies (Bill Mohr) CHAPTER thirteen The Black Art of Confession (Steven Gould Axelrod) CHAPTER fourteen Binding Nation-States: Poetry Anthologies of Hawai‘i, 1966–2018 (Stanley Orr) CHAPTER fifteen The Poetics of Chicana Daughterhood: Cherríe Moraga and Lorna Dee Cervantes (Lisette Ordovica Lasater) PART TWO Interviews with Poets CHAPTER sixteen Mitsuye Yamada (Interviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod, Craig Svonkin, and Traise Yamamoto) CHAPTER seventeen Marilyn Nelson (Interviewed by Craig Svonkin) CHAPTER eighteen Rae Armantrout (Interviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin) CHAPTER nineteen Lorna Dee Cervantes (Interviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin) CHAPTER twenty Marilyn Chin (Interviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin) CHAPTER twenty-one Geof Huth (Interviewed by Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.) CHAPTER twenty-two Juan Delgado (Interviewed by Craig Svonkin) CHAPTER twenty-three Claudia Rankine (Interviewed by Andrew Lyndon Knighton) CHAPTER twenty-four Crisosto Apache (Interviewed by Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod) CHAPTER twenty-five Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Interviewed by Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin) PART THREE The Contemporary Moment CHAPTER twenty-six A Conversation with Stephanie Burt (Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod) CHAPTER twenty-seven Ecopoetics: In and against the American Grain (James McCorkle) CHAPTER twenty-eight Economies of Scale: Contemporary Poetry and the Marketplace (Ann Keniston) CHAPTER twenty-nine Contemporary Children’s Poetry: A Colloquy (Craig Svonkin in discussion with Mike Cadden, Richard CHAPTER thirty Multilingual American Poetry and Poetics (Maria Lauret) CHAPTER thirty-one Claiming Their Place: Contemporary Arab American Poetry and Poetics (Richard Hishmeh) CHAPTER thirty-two The Rise of Award-Winning Black Poets (Howard Rambsy II) CHAPTER thirty-three The Fourth Wave in Native American Poetics1 (Erika T. Wurth) CHAPTER thirty-four Recent Trends in Jewish American Poetry (Norman Finkelstein) CHAPTER thirty-five What Is the Queer Confessional? (Jan Maramot Rodil) CHAPTER thirty-six Poetry Translation and Poet-Translators (Brian Reed) CHAPTER thirty-seven Prosthetic Poetics: Contemporary Poetry of Disability (Jessica Lewis Luck) CHAPTER thirty-eight Data Dump: Poetry and Information in the Twenty-First Century (Jeffrey Gray) Contributors Index