Companion to Poetic Genre

Dr Erik Martiny teaches Anglophone literature and film in Aix-en-Provence, France. He has published numerous articles on poets such as Peter Redgrove, Frank O’Hara, Sylvia Plath, Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon, Ted Hughes, and Derek Walcott. He has also written on the connections between film and fiction, having recently edited a volume of essays entitled Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne (2009), as well as the book Intertextualité et filiation paternelle dans la poésie anglophone (2009).

• Notes on Contributors ixPreface xixAcknowledgments xxivPart I1 “To Get the News from Poems”: Poetry as Genre 3Jahan Ramazani2 What Was New Formalism? 17David Caplan3 Meter 34Peter L. Groves4 The Stanza: Echo Chambers 53Debra Fried5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode 64Ann Keniston6 English Elegies 77Neil Roberts7 The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem? 93Eve C. Sorum8 Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 104Lisa Sewell9 On “the Beat Inevitable”: The Ballad 117Romana Huk10 Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina 139Nicole Ollier11 The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds 157Maria Johnston12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle 171Karen Jackson Ford13 Looping the Loop: Terza Rima 188George Szirtes14 Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything 206Michael Hinds15 “Named Airs”: American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart) 220Meg Tyler16 African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity 234Jeff Westover17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 250Patrick Jackson18 Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet 263David Wheatley19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku 277Peter Harris20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry 293Geoff Ward21 “Gists and Piths”: The Free-Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry 306Marie-Christine Lemardeley22 The Emergent Prose Poem 318Andy Brown23 Concrete/Visual Poetry 330Fiona McMahon24 Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry 348Hélène Aji25 Modes of Found Poetry 361Lacy RumseyPart II26 “Horny Morning Mood”: The Aubade and Alba 379Kit Fryatt27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne 390Erik Martiny28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 404Rachel Falconer29 The Aisling 420Bernard O’Donoghue30 The Printed Voice 435Yann Tholoniat31 Rewriting the People’s Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956 446John Thieme32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: “Awful but Cheerful” 459Bonnie Costello33 Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse 478Todd Nathan Thompson34 Poetry and Its Occasions: “Undoing the Folded Lie” 490Stephen Wilson35 On Verse Letters 505Philip Coleman36 “Containing History”: Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre 521Alex Runchman37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem 532Jennifer Clarvoe38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 543Rainer Emig39 Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem 555Jo Gill40 “From Arcadia to Bunyah”: Mutation and Diversity in the Pastoral Mode 568Karina Williamson41 Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry 584Mark Scroggins42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 598Stephen Burt43 Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum 614Jonathan EllisIndex 627

“If there is some conceptual wobble in the nature of this undertaking, this Companion is nevertheless a useful, informative and—yes—companionable volume on which its editor may be congratulated.”  (English Studies, 1 October 2014)