The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry provides a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics include: the influence of jazz on beat poetry; surrealist influences on American verse; disability poetics; Asian American poetry; and more.

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

- List of Contributors
- Part I
- 1. A Century of Innovation: American Poetry from 1900 to the Present
- Cary Nelson
- Part II
- 2. Social Texts and Poetic Texts: Poetry and Cultural Studies
- Rachel Blau DuPlessis
- 3. American Indian Poetry at the Dawn of Modernism
- Robert Dale Parker
- 4. "Jeweled Bindings": Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality
- Melissa Girard
- 5. Hired Men and Hired Women: Modern American Poetry and the Labor Problem
- John Marsh
- 6. Economics and Gender in Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore
- Linda A. Kinnahan
- 7. Poetry and Rhetoric: Modernism and Beyond
- Peter Nicholls
- 8. Cézanne's Ideal of "Realization": A Useful Analogy for the Spirit of Modernity in American Poetry
- Charles Altieri
- 9. Stepping Out, Sitting In: Modern Poetry's Counterpoint with Jazz and the Blues
- Edward Brunner
- 10. Out With the Crowd: Modern American Poets Speaking to Mass Culture
- Tim Newcomb
- 11. Exquisite Corpse: Surrealist Influence on the American Poetry Scene, 1920-1960
- Susan Rosenbaum
- 12. Material Concerns: Incidental Poetry, Popular Culture, and Ordinary Readers in Modern America
- Mike Chasar
- 13. "With Ambush and Stratagem": American Poetry in the Age of Pure War
- Philip Metres
- 14. The Fight and the Fiddle in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
- Karen Jackson Ford
- 15. Asian American Poetry
- Josephine Park
- 16. "The Pardon of Speech": The Psychoanalysis of Modern American Poetry
- Walter Kalaidjian
- 17. American Poetry, Prayer, and the News
- Jahan Ramazani
- 18. The Tranquilized Fifties: Forms of Dissent in Postwar American Poetry
- Michael Thurston
- 19. The End of the End of Poetic Ideology, 1960
- Al Filreis
- 20. Fieldwork in New American Poetry: From Cosmology to Discourse
- Lytle Shaw
- 21. "Do our chains offend you?": The Poetry of American Political Prisoners
- Mark W. Van Wienen
- 22. Disability Poetics
- Michael Davidson
- 23. Green Reading: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Environmental Criticism
- Lynn Keller
- 24. Transnationalism and Diaspora in American Poetry
- Timothy Yu
- 25. "Internationally Known": The Black Arts Movement and U.S. Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop
- James Smethurst
- 26. Minding Machines / Machining Minds: Writing (at) the Human-Machine Interface
- Adalaide Morris
- Index