Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities.

Addressesthe early twentieth-century intersection of scientific and religious discourse exploring literary modernism through the lens of cultural history, focusingon the works of H.D., Mina Loy, and Jean Toomer.It covers a range of topics such aselectromagnetism and sexuality, dance, and theories of spiritual evolution."

This book explores the political significance of formal experimentation in American poetry written during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It focuses on the use of procedural forms, which involve the invention of rules or methods designed to structure the production of a poem's content.

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain.

This book is a critical experiment that tracks the literary and poetic uses of musical notation and notational methods in North American long poems from the middle of last century to the contemporary moment.

This book examines intersections of poetry and performance during the British Poetry Revival. This book is essential reading for poetry and performance enthusiasts, particularly those interested in innovative British Poetry.

Drawing on fresh perspectives from previously unknown biographical material and new editions and archives of Moore's work, the essays offer particularly interesting insights on Moore's relationships and her late career role as a culture icon.

This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss' and Lewis Hyde's theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics.