Contemporary Poetry

xx contemporary poetry Date Historical Events Literary Events 1990 German Federal Republic Chancellor Derek Walcott, Omeros; Hel ...

chronology xxi Date Historical Events Literary Events 1996 John Howard leads the Liberal- Charles Bernstein, ‘Poetics National c ...

xxii contemporary poetry Date Historical Events Literary Events 2001 Two hijacked airliners destroy the Lorna Goodison, Twin Tow ...

chronology xxiii Date Historical Events Literary Events 2006 A few months after test fi ring Charles Bernstein, Girly missiles, ...

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Introduction I love reading all those optimistic things that people say about poetry. Those sweeping statements about poetry bei ...

2 contemporary poetry The aim of this book is to introduce students to a broad span of ideas and movements, as well as essays an ...

introduction 3 objects remains uninterrogated.^4 Even a brief snapshot of poetry anthology titles since the 1950 s indicates the ...

4 contemporary poetry regarding the evolution of poetic forms, conceptualisation of the poets’ ideas through essays and manifest ...

introduction 5 was energized’, since philosophy’s linguistic turn ‘made the scene of writing itself the source and end and test ...

6 contemporary poetry might also consider Gwyneth Lewis’s refl ections upon the impact of bilingualism upon her work, or John Ki ...

introduction 7 tendency ‘to read radical British and Irish poetics not as different but as lagging behind American versions’.^15 ...

8 contemporary poetry form the poets refuse ‘to abandon a rational structure and compre- hensible language, even when the verse ...

introduction 9 have no / inner resources’.^19 To an extent the psychoanalytic turn can be viewed as a belated identifi cation in ...

10 contemporary poetry Increasingly literary and cultural historians have come to recognize that these are among the most truly ...

introduction 11 forces us to consider poetry as militant action. Moreover, Baraka’s ‘Expressive Language’ ( 1963 ) introduces id ...

12 contemporary poetry The search for the direct representation of women’s experiences through literary production was a key mot ...

introduction 13 ences in dub poetics. As Rich refl ects in ‘Blood, Bread and Poetry’, ‘Women have understood that we needed an a ...

14 contemporary poetry It is important to note, however, that contemporary poets use established forms as a guide, such as the v ...

introduction 15 of terza rima, a three-lined interlinked stanza sequence where the second line of each stanza rhymes with the fi ...