vi contemporary poetryChapter 2 Politics and Poetics 58
Founding Propositions: Politics and Post-World War II
Poetry 59
A Day in Politics: Inauguration Poets Maya Angelou and
Elizabeth Alexander 63
Pastoral and Ludic: Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon 67
The Politics of Language: Poetry and the Public Sphere –
Charles Bernstein 72
Reporting War: Eliot Weinberger 76
Politics and Poetics of Exile: Choman Hardi 80
Veteran’s Experience: Yusef Komunyakaa 82
Reclaiming History: Rita Dove’s ‘Parsley’ 85
Conclusion: Reading the Archive – M. NourbeSe Philip’s
Zong! 87Chapter 3 Performance and the Poem 98
Open Field Poetics and Projective Verse: Adaptations 99
Countercultural Performance: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 101
Performing Race: Amiri Baraka’s Jazz Poetic 102
Dub Poetry and its Descendants: Mutabaruka, Linton
Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah 107
The Poet Performer: Drama and Comedy in Paul Durcan
and Don Paterson 112
Performativity: Lyn Hejinian 116
Performance, the Voice and the World: Kate Fagan 121
Conclusion: Performance Writing and Experiment:
Caroline Bergvall 124Chapter 4 Environment and Space 133
Reading Space and Environment 133
Ecocriticism: Landscape and Ecology in Gary Snyder’s
Poetry 134
A Poetics of Place: Geoffrey Hill, Robert Hass and Anne
Szumigalski 137
The Spatial Turn 144
Space, the City and the Poem: Edwin Morgan, Kathleen
Jamie and Paula Meehan 146
Psychogeography: The Poet in the City – Iain Sinclair 151WILLIAMS PRINT.indd viWILLIAMS PRINT.indd vi 08/02/2011 11:4008/02/2011 11: