TY - BOOK TI - Contemporary poetry SN - 978-0-7486-388840 U1 - 821.909 PY - 2011/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - English poetry KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-254) and index; Introduction 'New, Newer and Newest' Poetry Poetics? Before the 1970s: Poetic Precedents Nerv Lines, The New Poetry, The New American Poetry Blood, Bread and Poetry: Gender and Poetics Multiformalisms: Form and Contemporary Poetry Structure of the Book Chapter i Lyric Subjects Towards a Theory of Lyric Expression Elegy and Epistle: Andrew Motion and Lee Harwood Speaking (Auto) Biographically: Cathy Song and Grace Nichols Self-reflexive Lyrics: Portraiture in John Ashbery, Sujata Bhatt and Jorie Graham Nobody's Voice: Michael Palmer Conclusion: Jennifer Moxley's Deceitful Subjective Chapter 2 Politics and Poetics Founding Propositions: Politics and Post-World War II Poetry A Day in Politics: Inauguration Poets Maya Angelou and Elizabeth Alexander Pastoral and Ludic: Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon The Politics of Language: Poetry and the Public Sphere - Charles Bernstein Reporting War: Eliot Weinberger Politics and Poetics of Exile: Choman Hardi Veteran's Experience: Yusef Komunyakaa Reclaiming History: Rita Dove's 'Parsley' Conclusion: Reading the Archive - M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! Chapter 3 Performance and the Poem Open Field Poetics and Projective Verse: Adaptations Countercultural Performance: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Performing Race: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Poetic Dub Poetry and its Descendants: Mutabaruka, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah The Poet Performer: Drama and Comedy in Paul Durcan and Don Paterson Per forma tivity: Lyn Hejinian Performance, the Voice and the World: Kate Fagan Conclusion: Performance Writing and Experiment: Caroline Bergvall Chapter 4 Environment and Space Reading Space and Environment Ecocriticism: Landscape and Ecology in Gary Snyder's Poetry A Poetics of Place: Geoffrey Hill, Robert Hass and Anne Szumigalski The Spatial Turn Space, the City and the Poem: Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie and Paula Meehan Psychogeography: The Poet in the City - Iain Sinclair Travelogue from the Regional to the Global: Robert Minhinnick and Lorna Goodison Ecopoetics and the Future Apocalyptic Landscapes: John Kinsella Conclusion: Juliana Spahr's Ecopoetics and Ideas of Connection Chapter 5 Dialects, Idiolects and Multilingual Poetries Global Poetry or, English as a Global Language Dialect and Phonetic Poetry: Tony Harrison, Tom Leonard and Liz Lochhead The 'big one, better tongue': Jackie Kay From Orality to Text: Ethnopoetics in Simon Ortiz and Joy Harjo's Poetry Bilingualism and Translation in Poetry 'My glossolalia shall be my passport': Gwyneth Lewis Immigration and Linguistic Difference: Li-Young Lee Interlingual Poetics: Lorna Dee Cervantes Idiolects or Ideolectical Poetries Linguistic Cross-fertilisation: Tusiata Avia Conclusion: Daljit Nagra Conclusion What is Electronic Writing? Content-specific Electronic Writing: John Cayley, Jenny Weight, Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar, Reiner Strasser and M.D. Coverley Electronic Experimentation and Language: Peter Finch and Trevor Joyce Poet's Playground: 'Flarf Poetry Documentation and Poetry: Mark Nowak's Coal Mountain Elementary Textured Information: Joshua Clover and Claudia Rankine Disseminating Poetry Student Resources Electronic Resources Questions for Discussion Glossary Poetry Anthologies Guide to Further Reading ER -