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A Concise Companion to

Twentieth-century

American Poetry

Edited by Stephen Fredman

iii

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A concise companion to twentieth-century American poetry / edited by Stephen

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1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism—Handbooks, manuals,

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Contents

Notes on Contributors

viii

Acknowledgments

Chronology

xii

Introduction

Stephen Fredman

1 Wars I Have Seen

Peter Nicholls

American poets’ response to war, with particular

attention to Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,

Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan, George Oppen,

Susan Howe, and Lyn Hejinian.

2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century

American Poets Read the British

David Herd

How US poets responded and reacted to British

poetry, in particular, Romanticism, focusing on

Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William

Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne

Moore, Cleanth Brooks, Charles Olson,

Frank O’Hara, and Adrienne Rich.

Contents

3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy

Alan Golding

Discusses the relationship between poets and the

academy, with attention to Ezra Pound, the Fugitives,

Charles Olson, the anthology wars, creative writing

programs, African-American poetry, Charles Bernstein,

and Language poetry.

4 Feminism and the Female Poet

Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller

Twentieth-century poetry developed in the context of

evolving feminist thought and activism, as demonstrated

in the work of Marianne Moore, Gertrude Stein, H. D.,

Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath,

Adrienne Rich, Sonia Sanchez, and Harryette Mullen.

5 Queer Cities

Maria Damon

The relationship between gay urban sensibility and

poetic form, with discussions of Gertrude Stein, Djuna

Barnes, Hart Crane, Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan,

Jack Spicer, and Allen Ginsberg.

6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art

World

113

Brian M. Reed

Poetic responses to New York’s avant-garde tradition

in the visual arts, with attention to Mina Loy, William

Carlos Williams, Frank O’Hara, John Cage, John

Ashbery, Jackson Mac Low, and Susan Howe.

7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on

Twentieth-century African-American Poetry

135

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Discusses the effect that the blues and jazz have had

on twentieth-century African-American poets, including

Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Robert

Hayden, Gayl Jones, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Michael

Harper.

Contents

8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and

Migrancy

151

A. Robert Lee

The ongoing arrival of populations from beyond

US borders and internal migration, as reﬂected in

poetry – WASP to African American, Jewish to

Latino/a, Euro-American to Native American.

9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism

173

Alan Filreis

A survey of the complex association of modern poetry

and American communism (and anticommunism),

including discussions of Muriel Rukeyser, William

Carlos Williams, Genevieve Taggard, Wallace

Stevens, and Kenneth Fearing.

10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity 191

Stephen Fredman

Why mysticism appeals to American poets and how

it affects their poetry, focusing upon Ezra Pound, H. D.,

T. S. Eliot, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, John Cage,

Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and

Fanny Howe.

11 Poets and Scientists

212

Peter Middleton

Shows how poets, including William Carlos Williams,

Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, Robert Creeley, Charles

Olson, Ron Silliman, Myung Mi Kim, and Mei-mei

Berssenbrugge have responded to modern technology

and the new sciences of physics and genetics.

12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry

231

Michael Davidson

Addresses the role of ideas and theory in modern

poetry, with examples drawn from Wallace Stevens,

Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams,

Gertrude Stein, the New Critics, and many others.

Index

252

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