Stephan Delbos is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague. He has published several volumes of poetry and translation. In 2020 he was named the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts. His most recent book is Small Talk (2021).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Raw Americans: The Persistence of The New American Poetry’s National, Binary Model of Anglophone Poetry.- 3. Behind Enemy Lines: The New American Poetry as a Cold War Anthology.- 4. The Community of Love: The New American Poetry and Revolutionary Relationships in Cold War America.- 5. This Thing Is Most National: Nationalism and Assimilation in The New American Poetry.- 6. Post-War to Post-Truth: Reassessing the American Avant-garde Canon.- 7. Conclusion: The Slow Collapse of the Formalist Framework

“The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism, Delbos uniquely contextualizes Allen’s anthology within America’s postwar, socio-political milieu caught up in dramatic, unrelenting reinvention. The shortcomings—not merely of Allen’s anthology or The New Poets of England and America but rather all of America as it entered into a new form of geopolitical struggle—are spelled out meticulously.” (Burt Kimmelman, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 47 (1), 2023)