1 Introduction 1
Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen
Section 1: Poetry before "American Poetry" 5
2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton 7
Tamara Harvey
3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 18
Wendy Raphael Roberts
4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 28
Adam Bradford
5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy 39
Lauri Scheyer
Section 2: Poetry and The Transcendent 51
6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists 53
Wendy Martin and Camille Meder
7 Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies 68
Bruce Ronda
8 "Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God": Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief 82
Norman Finkelstein
9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry 95
Nikki Skillman
Section 3: Experimentalisms, Early and Late 107
10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom 109
Bob Perelman
11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity 120
Johanna Winant
12 "Making a Way":The Black Mountain Review and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities 133
Joshua Hoeynck
13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative 146
Kaplan Harris
14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora 157
Tyrone Williams
15 Wearables and Modernist Poetrys Prototypes 166
Margaret Konkol
16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry 184
Steven Gould Axelrod
Section 4: Poetry and Identity 199
17 The Black Quatrain and America's Racialized Poetics 201
Ben Glaser
18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry 216
Daniel Enrique Pérez
19 Trans Poetry and Poetics 230
Trace Peterson
Section 5: Transnational Poetry 243
20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons 245
Margaret Noodin
21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 257
Susan M Schultz
22 "Audience Distant Relative": Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form 269
Mayumo Inoue
23 "A Little Room in a House Set Aflame": American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century 283
Walt Hunter
24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry 294
Sarah Dowling
Section 6: Poetry and the Arts 303
25 "Sketch of a Man on a Platform": The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem 305
Andrew Epstein
26 Poetry in the Public Square 320
Stephen Cushman
27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment 332
Avery Slater
28 "Compared to What": Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics 344
Andrew DuBois
29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies 354
Susan Cooke Weeber
Section 7: Nature and After 367
30 Reading God's Book of the World 369
Robert Daly
31 "Sharing with the Ants": American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay 379
Christoph Irmscher
32 Post-Natural Modernism 390
Mark C Long
33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings 402
Margaret Ronda
Section 8: Poetry of Engagement 415
34 American War Poetry 417
Cary Nelson
35 Lynch Fragments 431
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
36 Indigenous Docupoetry: "'Last Indian War' in Verse" 442
Kimberly Blaeser
37 "It's Been a While": Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders 455
Michael Dowdy
38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 469
David Lau
Index 484
A Companion to American Poetry brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Organized thematically, the Companions thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries.
Both a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship,A Companion to American Poetryis essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.
Mary McAleer Balkun is Professor of English at Seton Hall University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in early American literature and culture, the American gothic and grotesque, and digital humanities. She is also an instructor in the university's Honors program. She has served as the Director of Faculty Development at the university since 2015. She is the author or editor of six books, as well as numerous articles on early American topics, instructional pedagogy, and faculty governance. Her current book project isNew World Upside Down: The Early American Grotesque.
Jeffrey H. Gray is Professor of English at Seton Hall University. He is the author of the bookMastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry and ofnumerous articles on American and Latin American literature. He is the editor ofThe Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, the largest reference work of its kind, and co-editor, with Ann Keniston, of The News from Poems: Essays on the New American Poetry of Engagementand ofThe New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology. His poetry has appeared inThe American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Yale Review, PN Review, Lana Turner Review, Western Humanities Review,and other journals. He is also the translator of Rodrigo Rey Rosa's novelsThe African Shore(nominated for the Pen Translation Award in 2014) andChaos: A Fable.
Paul Jaussen is an Associate Professor of Literature at Lawrence Technological University in Detroit, MI, where he co-directs the Humanity+Technology lecture series. His teaching and research focuses on poetry and poetics, literary theory, and the relationship between literature and technology. His first book,Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital (Cambridge University Press, 2017), deploys systems theory as a model for comprehending the complex, adaptive forms of the modern and contemporary American long poem. His most recently published essays have been dedicated to poetry and the art object in the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, spectrality and the transhistorical literary catalogue, and the use of hypothetical focalization in William Faulker'sAbsalom, Absalom! These and other works have appeared inNew Literary History,Comparative Literature,Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Chicago Review, andASAP/J, among others. He is currently writing a second book alongside thisCompanion, tentatively entitledRumors of Utopia: Contemporary Literature's Public Language.
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