Will Montgomery
Gebundenes Buch

Short Form American Poetry

The Modernist Tradition

Versandkostenfrei!
Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen
124,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
Weitere Ausgaben:
PAYBACK Punkte
62 °P sammeln!
A ground-breaking analysis of the short form lineage in twentieth-century American poetry Reading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse. It begins with Imagism and devotes chapters to William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, Robert Grenier and Rae Armantrout. Montgomery combines his larger argument, which takes issue with epic-driven narratives of Modernist poetry, with sensitive and original readings of numerous short and short-lined po...