American Poetry After Modernism: The Power of the Word

by Albert Gelpi

Book Overview

Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of major poets of the postwar period from Robert Lowell and Adrienne Rich through the Language poets. He argues that what distinguishes American poetry from the British tradition is, paradoxically, the lack of a tradition; as a result, each poet has to ask fundamental questions about the role of the poet and the nature of the medium, has to invent a language and form for his or her purposes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108706223
• ISBN13: 9781108706223
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"