Poetry in a Global Age

Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books, among them, A Transnational Poetics and Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• Introduction.Chapter 1. “Cosmopolitan Sympathies”: Poetry of the First Global WarChapter 2. The Local Poem in a Global AgeChapter 3. Poetry and Tourism in a Global AgeChapter 4. Modernist Inflections, Postcolonial DirectionsChapter 5. Poetry and the Transnational Migration of FormChapter 6. Yeats’s Asias: Modernism, Orientalism, Anti-orientalismChapter 7. Poetry, the Planet, and the Ecological Thought: Wallace Stevens and BeyondChapter 8. Seamus Heaney’s GlobeChapter 9. Code-Switching, Code-Stitching: A Macaronic Poetics?Chapter 10. Poetry, (Un)Translatability, and World LiteratureEpilogue. Lyric Poetry: Intergeneric, Transnational, Translingual?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"Ramazani’s insight in Poetry in a Global Age is especially astute and timely: poetry is important and flourishing precisely because of its global perspective. . . . Among the book’s many merits are the close readings which, teeming from its dense pages, are uniformly insightful. Ramazani is either introducing us to poets who deserve a wider audience and showing us why. . . or reconceiving some aspect of long-studied figures with a fresh angle or a new context."