...Jeffrey W. Westover Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 jeffreywestover@boisestate.edu 18 Poetry: 1900 to the 1950s Jeff W. Westover i General The Library of America has issued African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, ed. Kevin Young. For the period 1900 1950...

...Dale Fancher Enggass Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 dale.enggass@utah.edu 19 Poetry: The 1950s to the Present Dale Fancher Enggass i Reading Form Two books by Craig Dworkin aim to demonstrate the interpretive potentials of unusual ways of reading (and writing) for literary...

...Jeff Westover 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1950s Jeff Westover The year 2015 proved to be a banner one for histories of American and modernist poetry, so much so that it is not possible to cover them all. Cambridge published one, and Richard Grey published another. Cam- bridge...

...Anne Dewey 18  Poetry: The 1950s to the Present Anne Dewey Thankful to my predecessor, Jim Cocola, for (among other things) his category “Poetry and Its Others,” I begin this review with works that suggest new contexts and resulting ways of reading. I hope that they may also...

...Jeff Westover © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8118608 © 2020 by Duke University Press 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1950s Jeff Westover The modernist aesthetic of impersonality could lead some people to believe that emotion plays...

...Jeffrey Westover Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Poetry: to the s Je rey Westover Continued critical interest in Mina Loy is re ected in two recent books covered here, while research on Elizabeth Bishop has resulted in a new biography and a volume addressing archival material...

...Dale Fancher Enggass Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Poetry: e s to the Present Dale Fancher Enggass i Poetry and Race Several publications address issues of canon formation in African Ameri- can poetry, especially regarding musicality and the apparent tension between print...

...Frank J. Kearful © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 17  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank J. Kearful This is a good year for Elizabeth Bishop, as have been all the ten years that I have written this annual chapter. What Thomas Travisano referred to in 1994...

...E. P. Walkiewicz Duke University Press 2004 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s E. P. Walkiewicz Editions stand out prominently this year—editions of poetry, editions of prose, editions of letters, including an exemplary edition of Marianne Moore’s early poetry and an innovative...

...Gregg Camfield Duke University Press 2005 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Gregg Camfield The year’s work in poetry is as ample as one could hope for—indeed, too ample and diverse for quick characterization. Not surprisingly, the trends discussed in these pages last year persist...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2005 18 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful This chapter having been conspicuous by its absence of late, I have tried to do some catching up in my first year on the job. Books and articles published in 2001 and 2002 are included...

...Camille Norton Duke University Press 2006 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Camille Norton Are the margins of modernism shifting? Two books, Paul Hoover’s Fables of Representation (Michigan) and Linda A. Kinnehan’s Lyric Inter- ventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry...

...Matthew Hofer Duke University Press 2008 16  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Matthew Hofer Scholarly publications on modern American poetry—in journals, mono- graphs, and edited volumes, too—are somewhat rarer in 2006 than in recent years, and the critical engagements that do address...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2006 18  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful I got a warm feeling all over when an emeritus contributor to AmLS remarked that difficult though his was, my chapter was even more dif- ficult to write. I agreed. Anyone who...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2008 17  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful Reading diligently in order to write this annual chapter, I am repeatedly forced to realize how old and how resistant to change I have become. I came of age when we left it to the cops...

...Matthew Hofer Duke University Press 2007 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Matthew Hofer Motivated interdisciplinarity characterizes much of the recent scholar- ship on modern American poetry, as does a tendency to assert a broader view of literary and cultural history. This exerts...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2007 18  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful I sometimes wish a one-year moratorium could be called on new pub- lications about poetry since the 1940s. I could hang an out to lunch sign on this chapter and go and read some poetry...

...Timothy Materer © 2000 Duke University Press 2000 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Timothy Materer Over the period from 1993 through 1997 the publication of critical books on the major American poets has been remarkably steady. The two most critically popular poets, William Carlos Williams...