A denser, richer view of the history that hundreds of poets made.
John Timberman Newcomb is a professor of English at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Would
Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013.
"An important study . . . of how poetry finds itself in the world
and becomes an integral part of it. Highly
recommended."--Choice
"A pathbreaking study. No other book treats the 'new verse'
of the 1910s and early 1920s with such care and with such a sense
of contextual detail. Our sense of what modern poetry can
achieve--and how poetry helped shape a modernist sensibility--will
be subtly but surely changed by what Newcomb offers here."--Edward
Brunner, author of Cold War Poetry "A bold and meticulously
researched revision of the history of modern American poetry.
Newcomb's brilliant close readings illuminate the social and
political dimensions of modern poetry and poetics."--Suzanne W.
Churchill, coeditor of Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches
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