The Cambridge introduction to American poetry since 1945 / Andrew Epstein.
Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the rich body of American poetry that has flourished since 1945 and offers a useful map to its current landscape. By...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
- From modernist to contemporary poetry
- The raw and the cooked : the new criticism versus the new American poetry
- The Black Mountain poets
- The beats and the San Francisco renaissance
- The New York School of poetry
- The middle generation, Elizabeth Bishop, and confessional poetry
- Deep image poetry
- African American poetry from 1945 to
- A new "mainstream" period style in poetry of the 1970s and 1980s
- Language poetry
- Feminism and women's poetry from 1970 to
- Multiculturalism, identity, and poetry from 1970-
- New directions in American poetry from 2000 to the present.