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Walt Whitman and the World
University of Iowa Press 1995; US$ 29.95Celebrating the various ethnic traditions that melded to create what we now call American literature, Whitman did his best to encourage an international reaction to his work. But even he would have been startled by the multitude of ways in which his call has been answered. By tracking this wholehearted international response and reconceptualizing American... more...
The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Wiley 2008; US$ 109.95Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets... more...
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 27.00For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition. From the Hardcover edition. more...
Poetry & Language Writing
Liverpool University Press 2008; US$ 49.95It has been variously labelled Language Poetry, Language Writing, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing (after the magazine that ran from 1978 to 1981), and language-centred writing. It has been variously defined as non-referential or of diminished reference, as textual poetry or a critique of expressivism, as a reaction... more...
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 28.00In this ambitious overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest linking contemporary poets with their modernist forebears, including Stein, Williams and Pound. She develops important new ways to read modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well... more...
So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 32.95Explores Whitman’s intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife. Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman’s career as thinker, poet, and person. Through a close reading... more...
The Evolution of Walt Whitman
University of Iowa Press 1999; US$ 40.00Now, nearly forty years after its original translation into English, Roger Asselineau's complete and magisterial biography of Walt Whitman will remind readers of the complex weave of traditions in Whitman scholarship. It is startling to recognize how much of our current understanding of Whitman was already articulated by Asselineau nearly half... more...
Fourteen on Form
University Press of Mississippi 2004; US$ 50.00Poets include:Willis BarnstoneRobert ConquestWendy CopeDouglas DunnAnthony HechtJohn HollanderDonald JusticeX. J. KennedyMaxine KuminFrederick MorganJohn Frederick NimsW. D. SnodgrassDerek WalcottRichard Wilbur When free verse and its many movements seemed to dominate poetry, other writers worked steadfastly, insistently, and majestically in traditional... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 25.00The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. more...









