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This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life.
Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Chronology.Introduction.1 Wars I Have Seen: Peter Nicholls (University of Sussex).2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-Century American Poets Read the British: David Herd (University of Kent).3 American Poet-Teachers and the Academy: Alan Golding (University of Louisville).4 Feminism and the Female Poet: Lynn Keller (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Cristanne Miller (Pomona College).5 Queer Cities: Maria Damon (University of Minnesota).6 Twentieth-Century Poetry and the New York Art World: Brian M. Reed (University of Washington).7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth Century African-American Poetry: Rowan Ricardo Phillips (SUNY, Stony Brook).8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy: A. Robert Lee (Nihon University, Tokyo).9 Modern Poetry and Anti-Communism: Alan Filreis (University of Pennsylvania).10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity: Stephen Fredman (University of Notre Dame).11 Poets and Scientists: Peter Middleton (University of Southampton).12 Philosophy, Theory in U.S. Modern Poetry: Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego).Index..