Situating Poetry

Covenant and Genre in American Modernism

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<p><b>A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.</b></p><p>What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this question challenges common assumptions about modern poetry and requires that we explore the important questions that define genre: Where is this poem situated, and how did it get there?</p><p>Joshua Logan Wall's <i>Situating Poetry</i> studies five poets of the New York literary scene rarely considered together: James Weldon Johnson, Charles Reznikoff, Lola Ridge, Louis Zukofsky, and Robert Hayden. Charting their works and careers from 1910-1940, Wall illustrates how these politically marginalized writers from drastically different religious backgrounds wrestled with their status as American outsiders. These poets produced a secularized version of America in which poetry, rather than God, governed individual obligations to one another across multiethnic barriers.</p><p>Adopting a multiethnic and pluralist approach, Wall argues that each of these poets--two Black, two Jewish, and one Irish-American anarchist--shares a desire to create more truly democratic communities through art and through the covenantal publics created by their poems despite otherwise sitting uncomfortably, at best, within a more standard literary history. In this unique account of American modernist poetics, religious pluralism creates a lens through which to consider the bounds of solidarity and division within and among ethnic identities and their corresponding literatures.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781421443782

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

229 x 152 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Johns Hopkins University Press