A Companion to American Poetry

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A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY

Contents

List of Illustrations

Guide

Pages

1 Introduction

References

2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton

“She for Her Potency Must Go Alone”: Anne Bradstreet’s Semiramis

“Or Round the Pictured Orb Instructive Trace”: Sarah Wentworth Morton’s Lady Harriet Ackland

NOTES

References

3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America

Evangelicalism and New Constellations of the Sermon and Verse

James Ireland and Evangelical Poetic Address

REFERENCES

4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary

The Inca and the “Civilized Tribes” in the Time of Indian Removal

Dramatic Depictions: The Inca and Literary Responses to Indian Removal

NOTES

REFERENCES

5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy

NOTES

WORKS CITED

6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists

NOTES

REFERENCES. POEMS

SECONDARY WORKS

7. Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies

REFERENCES

8 “Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God”: Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief

Disenchantment and Belief

The Question of Myth

Redemptive Poetics

The Poem as Scripture

Wisdom Literature

Returning to Eden

NOTES

WORKS CITED

9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry

NOTES

REFERENCES LIST

10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom

NOTES

REFERENCES

11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity

Poetry: All Roads

Philosophy: Radical Interpretation

Philosophy: The Principle of Charity

Poetry: Indeterminacy

Poetry: Imagery

Poetry: Experiment

Poetry: Further Experiments

Pedagogy: Poetry and Charity

NOTES

REFERENCES

12 “Making a Way”: The Black Mountain Review and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities

NOTES

REFERENCES

13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative

NOTES

REFERENCES

14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora

REFERENCES

15 Wearables and Modernist Poetry’s Prototypes

Mass Culture Valentines and the Modernist Wearable

Mina Loy’s Wearable

Fabricating Process

Circuit Build Materials

The Microview Shell

Reflections on the Build

Conclusion: Trinket, Prototype, Poem

NOTES

REFERENCES

16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry

NOTES

WORKS CITED

17 The Black Quatrain and America’s Racialized Poetics

Listening for Genre and Pseudomorphic Form

Residual Ballads, Deformed Quatrains

NOTES

REFERENCES

18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry

NOTES

REFERENCES

19 Trans Poetry and Poetics

NOTES

REFERENCES

20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons

REFERENCES

21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

REFERENCES

22 “Audience Distant Relative”: Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form

Traces of the Poetic in Dictée

Myung Mi Kim’s Poetics beyond “The State” of Perception

Becoming-Diseuse

NOTES

WORKS CITED

23 “A Little Room in a House Set Aflame”: American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century

REFERENCES

24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry

NOTES

REFERENCES

25 “Sketch of a Man on a Platform”: The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem

NOTES

REFERENCES

26 Poetry in the Public Square

NOTES

REFERENCE LIST

27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment

NOTES

REFERENCES

28 “Compared to What”: Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics

NOTES

REFERENCES

29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies

NOTES

REFERENCES

30 Reading God’s Book of the World

REFERENCES

31 “Sharing with the Ants”: American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay

NOTES

REFERENCES

32 Post-Natural Modernism

Nature’s Refrain

Local Adaptation

Cultural History and Place

Urban Natures

Poetry and Presence

Reality and Process

NOTES

REFERENCES

33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings

Epochal Thinking, Poetic Practice

Speed and Slowness

Location and Dislocation

Addressing Environments

Planetarity

REFERENCES

34 American War Poetry

REFERENCES

35 Lynch Fragments

References

36 Indigenous Docupoetry: “‘Last Indian War’ in Verse”1

“Aesthetic Activism”2

“Linguistic Mystification”7

Exposing the Archive

Decolonizing the “Whereas”

Beyond “Archive Fever”

Poetic Tools of Survivance

Further Experiments

NOTES

REFERENCES

37 “It’s Been a While”: Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders

NOTES

WORKS CITED

38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

Political Identities

Amiri Baraka at the New Century’s Crossroads

Platforms of Post-Crisis Poetics

Isn’t Poetry the Dream of Weapons?

Left Decade after the Great Recession

REFERENCES

Index

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