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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Contemporary American Poetry"”.
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Metaformal Trends in Contemporary American Poetry
… formal trends of the last thirty years in American poetry. Chapter One develops Stephen Cushman’s earlier consideration of metaformalism in the work of A. R. Ammons and situates the metaformal in the lineage of Charles Olson’s influential essay on “Projective Verse.” I connect Ammons to Lyn …
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Beyond McPoetry: Contemporary American Poetry in the Institutionalized Creative Writing Program Era
… the rise of the creative writing program in American higher education and considers its influence on contemporary American poetry. I investigate how the patronage of the university has impacted American poetry and reconfigured the contemporary literary landscape. Using Mark McGurl's (2009) …
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Between Continents
… of aesthetic values is a well known feature of contemporary American poetry. Charles Webb in his essay on the competing aesthetics in poetry uses the metaphor of apples and orangutans to point out how exaggerated this difference really is. Jorie Graham sees in the way young writers today are …
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"To make a poet black then bid him sing"
… Th e Traditional Black Aesthetic, International poetry and poetics, and contemporary American poetry and poetics. As my own work has developed I have synthesized these influences in my own individual way. For example, my own poem “Thinking of Blackness,” among other poems has been influenced by …
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Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry
… examines the connection between scripture and contemporary American poetry. Scripture is inherently poetic, employing devices that require analysis and explication. Poets drawing from scriptural text for narrative, language, or form are not looking to replace scripture, or even enhance it. …
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<i>Dredging Day </i>and a trauma-informed reading of <i>Whereas</i> by Layli Long Soldier
… thesis comprises a study on Layli Long Soldier’s poetry collection Whereas (Graywolf, 2017) within the field of contemporary American poetry (33,247 words excl. bibliography), a collection of original poems (64 pages excl. notes and frontmatter), and a bridging statement (5833 words). …
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The poetics of immanence and experience: Robert Lowell, James Wright, Richard Hugo, Jorie Graham
… thesis defines the poetics of a strand within contemporary American poetry, generally described as “mainstream” by literary critics that I define as “the poetics of immanence and experience”. I delineate the genealogy of this poetics from the late 1950s to the end of the 1990s, focusing on four …
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“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin
… thesis documents four distinct post-WWII North American writers and artists—the poet John Berryman, the poet John Ashbery, the classicist and writer Anne Carson, and the photographer Nan Goldin—who expanded traditional definitions and practices of portraiture. Their works—<em>The Dream …