Short Form American Poetry

The Modernist Tradition

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Will Montgomery, University of London) Montgomery, Will (Reader in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Royal Holloway

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Reading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse. It begins with Imagism and devotes chapters to William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, Robert Grenier and Rae Armantrout. Montgomery combines his larger argument, which takes issue with epic-driven narratives of Modernist poetry, with sensitive and original readings of numerous short and short-lined poems. Suggesting a reappraisal of key movements as objectivism, Black Mountain poetry and Language Writing, he opens new lines of discussion around the major poets of the period.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-30
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt388 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399500548

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Montgomery explores short-form American poetry that falls outside the usual categories of lyric on the one hand and of distinctive movements such as imagism and objectivism on the other hand. [...] Standout chapters include a superb reconsideration of H. D. that argues she far exceeds Ezra Pound in the art of the small. [...] The concluding chapter on Rae Armantrout offers one of the best contextualized readings of this poet’s “always contingent” craft this reviewer has encountered. Summing Up: Recommended