The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry Yu Paperback

The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American PoetryAuthor(s): Timothy Yu\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108741958, 978-1108741958\nSynopsis\nA new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. ThisCompanionshows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities with the poetry of the previous century, takes place in new modes and contexts that require new critical paradigms. Offering a comprehensive introduction to studying the poetry of the new century, this collection highlights the new, multiple centers of gravity that characterize American poetry [url] on African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries respond to the centrality of issues of race and indigeneity in contemporary American [url] essays explore poetry and feminism, poetry and disability, and queer [url] environment, capitalism, and war emerge as poetic preocc.