Contents
1 Cover
2 Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
7 Section 1: Poetry before “American Poetry” 2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton 3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy
8 Section 2: Poetry and The Transcendent 6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists 7 Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies 8 “Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God”: Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief 9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry
9 Section 3: Experimentalisms, Early and Late 10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom 11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity 12 “Making a Way”: The Black Mountain Review and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities 13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative 14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora 15 Wearables and Modernist Poetry’s Prototypes 16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry
10 Section 4: Poetry and Identity 17 The Black Quatrain and America’s Racialized Poetics 18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry 19 Trans Poetry and Poetics
11 Section 5: Transnational Poetry 20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons 21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 22 “Audience Distant Relative”: Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form 23 “A Little Room in a House Set Aflame”: American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century 24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry
12 Section 6: Poetry and the Arts 25 “Sketch of a Man on a Platform”: The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem 26 Poetry in the Public Square 27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment 28 “Compared to What”: Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics 29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies
13 Section 7: Nature and After 30 Reading God’s Book of the World 31 “Sharing with the Ants”: American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay 32 Post-Natural Modernism 33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings
14 Section 8: Poetry of Engagement 34 American War Poetry 35 Lynch Fragments 36 Indigenous Docupoetry: “‘Last Indian War’ in Verse” 37 “It’s Been a While”: Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders 38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century
15 Index
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