Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Poetry

An important study of African American contributions to contemporary American poetry.

Aldon Nielsen's book "Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism" (Cambridge University Press, 1997) was a ground-breaking work of scholarship that examined modern and postmodern developments in the work of African American poets since the Second World War and their contributions to both African American culture and American modernism.

"Integral Music" extends the terms of the studies begun in "Black Chant" through a more in-depth look at the work of key writers and poets in the...

This concise guide provides a clear theoretical framework for the study of Latin hexameter and places welcome stress on reading aloud and listening to classical verse, providing very practical help in achieving that skill.

The Poetry of the Possible challenges the conventional image of modernism as a socially phobic formation, arguing that modernism's abstractions and difficulties are ways of imagining unrealized powers of collective self-organization. Establishing a conceptual continuum between modernism and contemporary theorists such as Paulo Virno, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou, Joel Nickels rediscovers modernism's attempts to document the creative potenza of the multitude.

By examining scenes of collective life in works by William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis,...

The first anthology of its scope, Nebraska Poetry encompasses 150 years of the state s literary history, featuring 80-plus poets and more than 180 poems. This landmark collection includes poems by authors best known for their prose like Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, and Tillie Olsen as well as some remarkable but relatively forgotten writers from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Among the contemporary writers, it includes poets of Nebraska s renowned second renaissance along with a rich array of younger writers who are redefining what poetry from and about the...