Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry [electronic resource] : Innovative Identities /
Keller, J.author.
This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "of being numerous" -- Plural worlds and Aztec-Chicano serial poetry : an emergent protest literature -- Alfred Arteaga and Francisco X. Alarcón : forms of fire and time in the poetic series -- Gods at the crossroads between the self and the world : radical polytheism in N.J. Loftis -- Nathaniel Mackey's agnostic history and "the creaking of the wheel" -- A bridge over worlds : James Thomas Stevens's plural-world particularism -- "A bridge is simple movement" -- Fears of a one-world language.
This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds.
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Poetry.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Poetry and Poetics.