Modern poetry after modernism
By: James Longenbach.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
Description: In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-told story of post-modern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective.

Reading a diverse range of poets - John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur - Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid-century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see.

In the process, Longenbach allows readers to experience the wide variety of poetries written in our time - without asking us to choose between them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-195) and index.