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The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.
Intricate Thicket
Reading Late Modernist Poetries
University of Alabama Press
Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries offers a collection of nineteen essays that deftly erodes the simplistic distinction between modernism and postmodernism, showing that many attributes of postmodernist verse form not a break with, but rather a continuation of, modernist poetry.
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Preface by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Introduction by C. S. Giscombe
University of Alabama Press
What I Say is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Edited by Julie Carr and Jeffrey C. Robinson
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Edited by Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan
University of Alabama Press
The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Contemporaries and Snobs
University of Alabama Press
This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.
Stubborn Poetries
Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde
University of Alabama Press
Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon.
Fieldworks
From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics
By Lytle Shaw
University of Alabama Press
Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.
The Darkness of the Present
Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly
University of Alabama Press
The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.
The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be
Essays and Interviews
By Harryette Mullen; Introduction by Hank Lazer
University of Alabama Press
The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be forms an extended consideration not only of Harryette Mullen’s own work, methods, and interests as a poet, but also of issues of central importance to African American poetry and language, women’s voices, and the future of poetry.
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