Title: American poets in the 21st century : the new poetics /
Authors: Rankine, Claudia, 1963-; Sewell, Lisa, 1960-
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: Understanding the current moment in poetry can be a difficult task, as the reader must sort among the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and the experimental. A welcome introduction to contemporary poetics, this collection represents one of the first attempts to chart the progress of a new generation of poets. Each chapter focuses on one poet, and includes a selection of poems, a brief statement of purpose by the poet, and a critical essay by a notable scholar. Working in forms ranging from the post-confessional lyric to documentary poetics, from the prose poem and the sonnet to sound poetry, these thirteen poets rank among the most notable and distinct of recent years.
Contents: Mark Levine -- Recording devices : Mark Levine's poetics of evidence / Sabrina Orah Mark -- Karen Volkman -- A space for desire and the mutable self : Karen Volkman's experimentations with the lyric / Paul Otremba -- D.A. Powell -- Here is the door marked heaven : D.A. Powell / Stephen Burt -- Peter Gizzi -- Peter Gizzi's city : the political quotidian / Cole Swensen -- Juliana Spahr -- All together/now : writing the space of collectivities in the poetry of Juliana Spahr / Kimberly Lamm -- Joshua Clover -- The pleasures of not merely circulating : Joshua Clover's political imagination / Charles Altieri -- Kevin Young -- Mixed-up medium : Kevin Young's turn-of-the-century American triptych / Rick Benjamin -- Tracie Morris -- Improvisational insurrection : the sound poetry of Tracy Morris / Christine Hume -- Myung Mi Kim -- Making common the commons : Myung Mi Kim's ideal subject / Warren Liu -- Stacy Doris -- The poetics of radical constraint and unhooked bedazzlement in the writing of Stacy Doris / Caroline Crumpacker -- Susan Wheeler -- Susan Wheeler's open source poetics / Lynn Keller -- Mark Nowak -- Mark Nowak : radical documentary praxis [redux] / David Ray Vance -- Kenneth Goldsmith -- Affect and autism : Kenneth Goldsmith's reconstitution of signal and noise / Raymond McDaniel