Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry
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Biografisk notat
Craig Svonkin is Executive Director of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association and Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA.
Steven Gould Axelrod is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He is co-editor of The New Anthology of American Poetry: Volumes 1-3 (2002-2012), editor of Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2019) and a former President of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (2004-6).
Handbooks of this kind rarely – if ever – give the poets themselves the microphone. I wish more would follow The <i>Bloomsbury</i>’s example. The questions poised are provocative and the answers illuminating (and sometimes suggestively elusive) ... A charming, idiosyncratic, and weirdly seductive map to a whole lot of poems.
The Robert Graves Review
This is such a wonderful anomaly among handbooks of poetry that I read it in one sitting. It is multicultural and multifaceted, personal and provocative, witty and wacky. The Handbook is an exciting mélange that will appeal to every scholar, student, and lover of American poetry.
Marian Janssen, Researcher at Radboud Institute for Culture and History, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin sought “a whale of a book.” Well, harpoon one they have, and no harm done. They right this vessel, sail the main of contemporary American poetry, and provision all with rich chowder. The crew within is as diverse, though better starred, than any that ever allegorized the decks of a Pequod. Here, surely, is a mast-head from which to survey our present literary horizons. Is this book indispensable? Reader, it is more. Climb aboard.
Mark Richardson, Professor of English, Doshisha University, JAPAN
Joy and playfulness abound throughout <i>The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry</i>. It’s marked by a hip kind of New York Schoolish teasing subversion, making for a delightful read (it modulates into more overtly serious topics too, of course, and even play is taken seriously – or maybe ‘rigorously’ would be the more appropriate word). But as I suggested earlier, it doesn’t forget poems in its attention to literary history, poetics, and poets. One of the best parts of the book (also in the children’s poetry colloquy), is by our fellow Gravesian Michael Joseph, the editor of <i>The Robert Graves Review</i> and a poet himself. His piece concludes the colloquy, and while it is an extended response to Svonkin’s question, <i>What advice might you offer scholars wanting to join the discussion of North American children's poetry?</i> (p. 351), it functions equally well as advice for any scholar choosing ‘to join the discussion’ surrounding poetry of any kind. It also captures the canny wit and subversive charm of The Bloomsbury itself.
The Robert Graves Review
With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry covers such topics as:
· Major histories and genealogies of post-war poetry – from the language poets and the Black Arts Movement to New York school and the Beats
· Poetry, identity and community – from African American, Chicana/o and Native American poetry to Queer verse and the poetics of disability
· Key genres and forms – including digital, visual, documentary and children’s poetry
· Central critical themes – economics, publishing, popular culture, ecopoetics, translation and biography
The book also includes an interview section in which major contemporary poets such as Rae Armantrout, and Claudia Rankine reflect on the craft and value of poetry today.
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod
Part One Roots and Branches of the Contemporary
1. A Conversation with Marjorie Perloff
Susan McCabe, Brian Reed, and Steven Gould Axelrod
2. The Feminist Poetry Movement in America
Bethany Hicok
3. American Poetry and War
Cary Nelson
4. Experimental Asian American Poetry
Josephine Nock-Hee Park
5. Undisciplined Writing: Postwar Prose Poetry
Michel Delville
6. Lowell’s Turtles
Stephanie Burt
7. Subjectivity and Identity in New York School Poetry
Terence Diggory
8. Jewish American Poetry and the Late Twentieth-Century Literary Canon
Hilene Flanzbaum
9. The Autobiographical Prose of Poets
Grzegorz Kosc
10. Queer Poetry after 1945
Laura Westengard
11. From Shingled Hippo to Gay Unicorn: Self-Othering in Bob Kaufman and Other Beats
Craig Svonkin
12. The National Anthology Wars and West Coast Anthologies
Bill Mohr
13. The Black Art of Confession
Steven Gould Axelrod
14. Binding Nation-States: Poetry Anthologies of Hawai‘i, 1966–2018
Stanley Orr
15. The Poetics of Chicana Daughterhood: Cherrie Moraga and Lorna Dee Cervantes
Lisette Ordovica Lasater
Part Two Interviews with Poets
16. Mitsuye Yamada
Steven Gould Axelrod, Craig Svonkin, and Traise Yamamoto
17. Marilyn Nelson
Craig Svonkin
18. Rae Armantrout
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
19. Lorna Dee Cervantes
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
20. Marilyn Chin
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
21. Geof Huth
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
22. Juan Delgado
Craig Svonkin
23. Claudia Rankine
Andrew Lyndon Knighton
24. Crisosto Apache
Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod
25. Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin
Part Three The Contemporary Moment
26. A Conversation with Stephanie Burt
Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod
27. Ecopoetics: In and against the American Grain
James McCorkle
28. Economies of Scale: Contemporary Poetry and the Marketplace
Ann Keniston
29. Contemporary Children’s Poetry: A Colloquy
Craig Svonkin, Mike Cadden, Richard Flynn, Michael Heyman, Krystal Howard,
Michael Joseph, JonArno Lawson, Lissa Paul, and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.
30. Multilingual American Poetry and Poetics
Maria Lauret
31. Claiming Their Place: Contemporary Arab American Poetry and Poetics
Richard Hishmeh
32. The Rise of Award-Winning Black Poets
Howard Rambsy II
33. The Fourth Wave in Native American Poetics
Erika T. Wurth
34. Recent Trends in Jewish American Poetry
Norman Finkelstein
35. What Is the Queer Confessional?
Jan Maramot Rodil
36. Poetry Translation and Poet-Translators
Brian Reed
37. Prosthetic Poetics: Contemporary Poetry of Disability
Jessica Lewis Luck
38. Data Dump: Poetry and Information in the Twenty-First Century
Jeffrey Gray
List of Contributors
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Craig Svonkin is Executive Director of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association and Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA.
Steven Gould Axelrod is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He is co-editor of The New Anthology of American Poetry: Volumes 1-3 (2002-2012), editor of Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2019) and a former President of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (2004-6).