Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry

by Trousdale and Rachel Trousdale

Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humor encourages mutual understanding and empathic insight among artist, audience, and subject. As a result, laughter helps poets reframe and reject literary, political, and discursive hierarchies--whether...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192895710
• ISBN13: 9780192895714
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"