The news from poems : essays on the 21st-century American poetry of engagement

Gray, Jeffrey, 1944- (editor.). Keniston, Ann, 1961- (editor.).

Summary: "The News from Poems examines a subgenre of recent American poetry that closely engages with contemporary political and social issues. This "engaged" poetry features a range of aesthetics and focuses on public topics from climate change, to the aftermath of recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the increasing corporatization of U.S. culture. The News from Poems brings together newly commissioned essays by eminent poets and scholars of poetry and serves as a companion volume to an earlier anthology of engaged poetry compiled by the editors. Essays by Bob Perelman, Steven Gould Axelrod, Tony Hoagland, Eleanor Wilner, and others reveal how recent poetry has redefined our ideas of politics, authorship, identity, and poetics. The volume showcases the diversity of contemporary American poetry, discussing mainstream and experimental poets, including some whose work has sparked significant controversy. These and other poets of our time, the volume suggests, are engaged not only with public events and topics but also with new ways of imagining subjectivity, otherness, and poetry itself"--

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ISBN: 9780472073184
ISBN: 9780472053186
ISBN: 0472073184
ISBN: 0472053183
ISBN: 9780472122196
ISBN: 0472122193
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 256 pages)
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Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

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General Note:	CatMonthString:march.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : Contemporary poetry and the public sphere / Jeffrey Gray and Ann Keniston -- Part one : Redefining the political. Homeland insecurity and the poetry of engagement / Eleanor Wilner -- The poetry of engagement and the politics of reading / Vernon Shetley -- Twenty-first-century ecopoetry and the scalar challenges of the anthropocene / Lynn Keller -- Part two : Redefining authorship. The politics of docupoetry / Joseph Harrington -- "Hands off" : official language in contemporary poetry / Jeffrey Gray -- Delivering difficult news / Bob Perelman -- Part three : Redefining identity. Frank Bidart's poetics of engagement / Steven Gould Axelrod -- Beyond Katrina : ecopoetics, memory, and race / James McCorkle -- Claudia Rankine and the body politic / Elisabeth A. Frost -- Part four : Redefining poetics. Echo revisions : repetition, politics, and the problem of value in contemporary engaged poetry / Ann Keniston -- Ambivalence and despair / Kevin Prufer -- Getting the world into the poem : information, layering, and the composite poem / Tony Hoagland.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.