How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse
"An important study . . . of how poetry finds itself in the world and becomes an integral part of it. Highly recommended."--Choice"A pathbreaking study. No other book treats the 'new verse' of the 1910s and early 1920s with such care and with such a sense of contextual detail. Our sense of what modern poetry can achieve--and how poetry helped shape a modernist sensibility--will be subtly but surely changed by what Newcomb offers here."--Edward Brunner, author ofCold War Poetry "A bold and meticulously researched revision of the history of modern American poetry. Newcomb's brilliant close readings illuminate the social and political dimensions of modern poetry and poetics."--Suzanne W. Churchill, coeditor ofLittle Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches