American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics

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Claudia Rankine, Lisa Sewell
Wesleyan University Press, Jul 9, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 400 pages

The ideal introduction to the current generation of American poets

Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years. American Poets in the 21st Century will serve as a useful and enlightening guide for any reader interested in how new American poetry can look, feel, and sound. The enclosed CD includes each of the thirteen poets reading their work.

Poets include: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young.

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About the author (2007)

Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She received a B.A. in English from Williams College and a M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of several collections of poetry including Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Plot, and The End of the Alphabet. Nothing in Nature is Private won the Cleveland State Poetry Prize and Citizen: An American Lyric won the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection. She has edited numerous anthologies including American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century: Where Lyric Meets Language and American Poets in the Twenty-First Century: The New Poetics. She is currently the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College. She won a 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry which carried a monetary award of $21,570. Lisa Sewell is a poet, editor and professor. She is currently a professor of creative writing at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of four books of poetry and is also the co-editor of "North American Women Poets in the 21st Century," "American Poets in the 21st Century," and "Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st century: Poetics Across North America."

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TitleAmerican Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics
American Poets in the 21st Century
Wesleyan poetry
EditorsClaudia Rankine, Lisa Sewell
Editionillustrated
PublisherWesleyan University Press, 2007
ISBN0819567280, 9780819567284
Length400 pages
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Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / American / General
Poetry / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Poetry / General
  
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