Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry

The Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the twenty-first century, highlighting the new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. It explores poetry and feminism, poetry and disability, queer poetics, the environment, capitalism, and war, and includes essays on African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 300 pages
\n Publication date: 11 March 2021
\n Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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A fresh poetic era necessitates fresh approaches. This Companion demonstrates that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while retaining significant continuities with the poetry of the previous century, occurs in new modes and contexts that necessitate new critical paradigms. This comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the new century highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American poetry today. Essays on African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries address the centrality of issues of race and indigeneity in contemporary American discourse. Other essays explore poetry and feminism, poetry and disability, and queer poetics. The environment, capitalism, and war emerge as poetic preoccupations, alongside a range of styles from spoken word to the avant-garde, and an examination of poetry's place in the creative writing era.

\n Weight: 404g\n
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 19 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781108741958\n \n