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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.

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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.

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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.

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Active Romanticism

The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice

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

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Reading the Difficulties

Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

University of Alabama Press

The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.

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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.  

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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.

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Fieldworks

From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics

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.

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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.

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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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