The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry and Politics shows how American poets have addressed political phenomena since 1900. This book helps students, teachers, and general readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics. Offering detailed case studies, this book discusses the relationships between poetry and social views found in work by well-established authors such as Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as lesser known, but influential figures such as Muriel Rukeyser. This book also emphasizes the crucial role contemporary African-American poets such as Claudia Rankine and leading spoken word poets play in documenting political themes in our current moment. Individual chapters focus on specific political issues - race, institutions, propaganda, incarceration, immigration, environment, war, public monuments, history, technology - in a memorable and teachable way for poetry students and teachers.

This book helps readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics since 1900.

About the Author
Daniel Morris is Professor of English at Purdue University, USA. He is author of The Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self (1995), Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art (2002), The Poetry of Louise Gluck: A Thematic Introduction (2006; 2021), After Weegee: Essays on Contemporary Jewish American Photographers (2011), Lyric Encounters (2013), Not Born Digital: Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media (2016), and Kenneth Goldsmith's Recent Work on Paper (2019). He has also edited or co-edited four other books as well as published four volumes of poetry, including Hit Play (2015) and Blue Poles (2019).


Book Information
ISBN 9781009180030
Author Daniel Morris
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 540g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 151mm * 21mm