{"product_id":"9781119669685","title":"A Companion to American Poetry","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBlackwell Companions to Literature and Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA Companion to American Poetry\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMary McAleer Balkun | Jeffrey Gray | Paul Jaussen\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized thematically, the Companion’s thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoth a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship, \u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Poetry \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARY MCALEER BALKUN\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Seton Hall University. Her research interests include early American literature and culture, the American gothic and grotesque, and digital humanities. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe American Counterfeit: Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as articles on early American literature, digital humanities, and pedagogy. She is co-editor of several anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and Transformative Digital Humanities.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEFFREY GRAY\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Seton Hall University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and of many articles on American and Latin American literature. He is the editor and co-editor of several anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry and The News from Poems: Essays on the New American Poetry of Engagement\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePAUL JAUSSEN\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Literature at Lawrence Technological University, where he co-directs the “Humanity+Technology” lecture series. His teaching and research focus is on poetry and poetics, literary theory, and the relationship between literature and technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWriting in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eNew Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Comparative Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, and ASAP\/J\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18 April 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781119669685\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e528\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e36.32\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44314377912460,"sku":"9781119669685","price":185.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781119669685.jpg?v=1780196171","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781119669685","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}