American poetry
Subtitle: Whitman to the present
By: edited by Robert Rehder and Patrick Vincent
Contributors: Rehder, Robert; Vincent, Patrick
Series: SPELL -- v. 18; Swiss papers in English language and literature -- v. 18
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9783823362715
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation; American poetry -- 19th century; American poetry -- 20th century; American poetry -- 21st century
Notes: Includes an index of names.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: "The United States themselves [are] essentially the greatest poem": fraternity, personalism, and a new world metaphysics in Democratic vistas / Louis J. Kern; value: Whitman's 1855 Leaves of grass: the incarnational and "Hard work and blood" / William Dow; value: Pound and Eliot's sense of history and tradition as re-lived experience / Viorica Patea; value: The abstract and the historical: structure in Ezra Pound's The fifth decad of cantos / Mike W. Malm; value: Art versus the descent of the iconoclasts: cultural memory in Ezra Pound's Pisan cantos / Ronald Bush; value: An anthropologist at work: Ruth Benedict's poetry / Philipp Schweighauser; value: How to end a life-work: Louis Zukofsky's indexes / Abigail Lang; value: Naming things: Frank O'Hara and "The day Lady died" / Micah Mattix; value: Surrealism meets Kabbalah: the place of Semina in mid-century California poetry / Stephen Fredman; value: Gender politics and the making of anthologies: towards a theory of women's poetry / Matilde Martín González; value: Poetry as mother tongue? Lorna Dee Cervantes' Emplumada / Erika Scheidegger; value: Four poems / Wesley McNair; value: Five poems / Robert Rehder