{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-modern-and-contemporary-american-poetry-9780195398779","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cary Nelson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae\u003cbr\u003eArmantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890672222359,"sku":"9780195398779","price":20817.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780195398779.webp?v=1781180877","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-modern-and-contemporary-american-poetry-9780195398779","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}