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Introductory Bibliography:

(Note: the following is obviously partial and incomplete, but should offer useful starting points for researching many of the authors and topics studied in this module. You should of course conduct your own searches and follow your own leads. Some entries below followed by haphazard annotation.)

Altieri, Charles. Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry (Cambridge UP, 1984). — —. Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (Cambridge UP, 1989). — —. The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After. Wiley- Blackwell, 2006. Ashton, Jennifer (ed.). Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945. Cambridge UP, 2013. Baker, Houston. Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory. University of Chicago Press, 1984. Beach, Christopher. ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition, University of California Press, 1992 (excellent on the paradox of the importance of Pound for politically engaged left-wing poets of subsequent generations). Beasley, Rebecca. T. S. Eliot, T. E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound: Theorists of Modernist Poetry, Routledge, 2007. — —. Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism. Cambridge UP, 2010. Bernstein, Charles. A Poetics. Harvard UP, 1992. Breslin, James. From Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry, 1945-1965. University of Chicago Press, 1985. Britzolakis, Christina. Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning. Clarendon Press, 1999. Brunner, Edward. Cold War Poetry: The Social Text in the 50s Poem. University of Illinois, 2004. Bush, Ronald. T.S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style. Oxford UP, 1984. Clay, Steven, and Rodney Phillips. A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980. New York Public Library and Granary Books, 1998. (excellent compendium of information about tiny and “underground” presses and magazines over this period). Conte, Joseph. Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry. Cornell UP, 1991. Costello, Bonnie. Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. Harvard UP, 1981. Damon, Maria. The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. (San Francisco Renaissance and Beat poets mostly). Davidson, Michael. Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material World. University of California, 1997. — —. On the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics. Wesleyan UP, 2011. — —. The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge UP, 1989 (as well as other books and articles). DuPlessis, Rachel Blau. Genders, Races and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry. Cambridge UP, 2001 (material on H.D., Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W. C. Williams, among others). — —. The Objectivist Nexus. Edited with Peter Quartermain. University of Alabama Press, 1999. Epstein, Andrew. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. Oxford UP, 2009. Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political Poet. Oxford UP, 1997. Filreis, Al. Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960. University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Finkelstein, Norman. On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry. University of Iowa Press, 2010 Fredman, Stephen (ed). A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Blackwell, 2005. — —. Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Post-War Poetry and Art. Stanford UP, 2010. — —. Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse. Cambridge UP, 1983. Gery, John. Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry: Ways of Nothingness. University Press of Florida, 1995. Grossman, Allen. The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle. University of Michigan Press, 1997. Hallberg, Robert von. Lyric Powers. University of Chicago Press, 2008. — —. American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980. Harvard UP, 1988; Charles Olson: The — —. Scholar’s Art. Harvard UP, 1978. Hart, Matthew. Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Poetry. Oxford UP, 2010. Herd, David. Enthusiast! Essays on Modern American Literature. Manchester UP, 2007. — —. John Ashbery and American Poetry. Manchester UP, 2003. Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson. New Directions, 1985. Huang, Yunte. Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature. University of California Press, 2002. (good on the context of Pound’s Chinese translations). Izenberg, Oren. Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life. Princeton UP, 2010. Jackson, Virginia. Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading. Princeton UP, 2005. Kalaidjian, Walter. The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past. Johns Hopkins UP, 2005. Kane, Daniel. All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s. University of California Press, 2003. (NY School, especially second generation). Katz, Daniel. The Poetry of Jack Spicer. Edinburgh UP, 2013. Keller, Lynn. Re-Making It New: Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition. Cambridge UP, 1987. Kendall, Tim. The Art of Robert Frost. Yale UP, 2013. Kenner, Hugh. A Home Made World: The American Modernist Writers. Marion Boyars, 1980. — —. The Pound Era, University of California Press, 1973. Kern, Robert. Orientalism, Modernism, and The American Poem. Cambridge UP, 1996 (mostly Pound and Gary Snyder). Kirsch, Adam. The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets: The Poetry of Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Jarrell, Schwartz, Plath. Norton, 2005. Longenbach, James. Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things. Oxford UP, 1991. — —. Modern Poetry after Modernism. Oxford UP, 1997. Mayhew, Jonathan. Apocryphal Lorca: Translation, Parody, Kitsch. University of Chicago Press, 2009. (very interesting on the importance of translation generally and Lorca in particular for American poets from the 1940s to the present) McHale, Brian. The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems. University of Alabama Press, 2004. Mellors, Anthony. Late Modernist Poetics from Pound to Prynne. Manchester UP, 2005. Middleton, Peter. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry. University of Alabama Press, 2005. Miller, Cristanne. Marianne Moore: Questions of Authority (Harvard UP, 1995). — —. Reading in Time:Emily Dickinson in the 19th Century (University of Massachussets Press, 2012). — —. Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar (Harvard UP, 1989), and many other works. Moten, Fred. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Nealon, Christopher. The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American Century. Harvard UP, 2011. Nicholls, Peter. George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism. Oxford UP, 2007. Nichols, Miriam. Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside. University of Alabama Press, 2011. (Mostly SF Renaissance and Black Mountain). North, Michael. The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature. Oxford UP, 1994. (very interesting material on Eliot, Pound, Stein,WC Williams, and Claude McKay). Perelman, Bob. The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History. Princeton UP, 1996. Perloff, Marjorie. The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Northwestern UP, 1996). — —. The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (Northwestern UP, 1981). — —. Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (University of Chicago Press, 1994). — —. Frank O’Hara: Poet Among the Painters (University of Chicago Press, 1998). — —. Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy (University of Alabama Press, 2004), as well as her many other books. Phillips, Siobhan. The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse. Columbia UP, 2009. Quartermain, Peter. Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde. University of Alabama Press, 2013. Rabaté, Jean-Michel. Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound’s Cantos. SUNY Press, 1986. Ramazani, Jahan. A Transnational Poetics. University of Chicago Press, 2009. Shockley, Evie. Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African- American Poetry. University of Iowa Press, 2011. Silliman, Ron. The New Sentence. Roof Books, 1987. Scroggins, Mark. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. University of Alabama Press, 1998. Shaw, Lytle. Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. University of Iowa Press, 2006. Shoptaw, John. On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery’s Poetry. Harvard UP, 1995. Silverberg, Mark, (ed.). New York School Collaborations. Macmillan, 2013. — —. The New York School Poets: Between Radical Art and Radical Chic. Ashgate, 2010. Smethurst, James. The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. University of North Carolina Press, 2005. — —. The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Snediker, Michael. Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions. University of Minnesota, 2008. Spivack, Kathleen. With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz & Others. Northeastern UP, 2012. Stewart, Susan. Poetry and the Fate of the Senses. University of Chicago Press, 2002. Tiffany, Daniel. Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric. University of California Press, 2000. Vanderborg, Susan. Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950. Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. Ward, Geoff. Statutes of Liberty: The New York School Poets. Palgrave, 1993. White, Eric. Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism. Edinburgh UP, 2013. Yao, Stephen. Translation and the Languages of Modernism: Gender, Politics, Language. Palgrave, 2002. Yu, Timothy. Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965. Stanford UP, 2009.