The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; PART I ; 1. A CENTURY OF INNOVATION: AMERICAN POETRY FROM 1900 TO THE PRESENT ; CARY NELSON ; PART II ; 2. SOCIAL TEXTS AND POETIC TEXTS: POETRY AND CULTURAL STUDIES ; RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS ; 3. AMERICAN INDIAN POETRY AT THE DAWN OF MODERNISM ; ROBERT DALE PARKER ; 4. "JEWELED BINDINGS": MODERNIST WOMEN'S POETRY AND THE LIMITS OF SENTIMENTALITY ; MELISSA GIRARD ; 5. HIRED MEN AND HIRED WOMEN: MODERN AMERICAN POETRY AND THE LABOR PROBLEM ; JOHN MARSH ; 6. ECONOMICS AND GENDER IN MINA LOY, LOLA RIDGE, AND MARIANNE MOORE ; LINDA A. KINNAHAN ; 7. POETRY AND RHETORIC: MODERNISM AND BEYOND ; PETER NICHOLLS ; 8. CEZANNE'S IDEAL OF "REALIZATION": A USEFUL ANALOGY FOR THE SPIRIT OF MODERNITY IN AMERICAN POETRY ; CHARLES ALTIERI ; 9. STEPPING OUT, SITTING IN: MODERN POETRY'S COUNTERPOINT WITH JAZZ AND THE BLUES ; EDWARD BRUNNER ; 10. OUT WITH THE CROWD: MODERN AMERICAN POETS SPEAKING TO MASS CULTURE ; TIM NEWCOMB ; 11. EXQUISITE CORPSE: SURREALIST INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN POETRY SCENE, 1920-1960 ; SUSAN ROSENBAUM ; 12. MATERIAL CONCERNS: INCIDENTAL POETRY, POPULAR CULTURE, AND ORDINARY READERS IN MODERN AMERICA ; MIKE CHASAR ; 13. "WITH AMBUSH AND STRATAGEM": AMERICAN POETRY IN THE AGE OF PURE WAR ; PHILIP METRES ; 14. THE FIGHT AND THE FIDDLE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY ; KAREN JACKSON FORD ; 15. ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY ; JOSEPHINE PARK ; 16. "THE PARDON OF SPEECH": THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY ; WALTER KALAIDJIAN ; 17. AMERICAN POETRY, PRAYER, AND THE NEWS ; JAHAN RAMAZANI ; 18. THE TRANQUILIZED FIFTIES: FORMS OF DISSENT IN POSTWAR AMERICAN POETRY ; MICHAEL THURSTON ; 19. THE END OF THE END OF POETIC IDEOLOGY, 1960 ; AL FILREIS ; 20. FIELDWORK IN NEW AMERICAN POETRY: FROM COSMOLOGY TO DISCOURSE ; LYTLE SHAW ; 21. "DO OUR CHAINS OFFEND YOU?": THE POETRY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL PRISONERS ; MARK W. VAN WIENEN ; 22. DISABILITY POETICS ; MICHAEL DAVIDSON ; 23. GREEN READING: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY AND

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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