A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American PoetryISBN: 978-1-4051-2002-9
Hardcover
288 pages
June 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Albert Gelpi, Stanford University
If I had to recommend a single book on the culture of
twentieth-American poetry to students or colleagues, I would choose
Stephen Fredman's Concise Companion. Fredman wisely decided to
treat the entire century as a whole rather than adopting the usual
Modernist/Postmodernist division or treating decades and poets
separately. From the opening "Wars I Have Seen" to the final
treatment of philosophy and theory in U.S. poetry, Fredman's
contributors carefully examine the intersecting worlds of our
poetry-- the New York art world, the impact of various diasporas,
and the curious intersections with politics, gender, and religion.
Yet the poetry itself always comes first, and no reader can fail to
profit from these clearly written, concise, and truly expert
chapters.
Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University