The News From Poems: Essays On the 21st-Century American Poetry of Engagement.

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Contents Introduction: Contemporary Poetry and the Public Sphere / Jeffrey Gray and Ann Keniston Part One: Redefining the Political 1. Homeland Insecurity and the Poetry of Engagement / Eleanor Wilner 2. The Poetry of Engagement and the Politics of Reading / Vernon Shetley 3. Twenty-First-Century Ecopoetry and the Scalar Challenges of the Anthropocene / Lynn Keller Part Two: Redefining Authorship 4. The Politics of Docupoetry / Joseph Harrington 5. “Hands Off”: Official Language in Contemporary Poetry / Jeffrey Gray 6. Delivering Difficult News / Bob Perelman Part Three: Redefining Identity 7. Frank Bidart’s Poetics of Engagement / Steven Gould Axelrod 8. Beyond Katrina: Ecopoetics, Memory, and Race / James McCorkle 9. Claudia Rankine and the Body Politic / Elisabeth A. Frost Part Four: Redefining Poetics 10. Echo Revisions: Repetition, Politics, and the Problem of Value in Contemporary Engaged Poetry / Ann Keniston 11. Ambivalence and Despair / Kevin Prufer 12. Getting the World into the Poem: Information, Layering, and the Composite Poem / Tony Hoagland Contributors