...: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds . By Williams Paul . Liverpool, UK : Liverpool Univ. Press . 2011 . viii , 278 pp. $85.50 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. By Michal Jan Rozbicki...

...Milette Shamir © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492–2002 . By Thomas O. Beebee. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 248 pp. $65.00. Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction . By David J. Leigh. Notre Dame, Ind...

...Alan Golding © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott . By George B. Handley. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xi, 441 pp. $39.95. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959...

... apocalyptic poetics In October 2016, a full month before the US presidential election, an electrician from Franklin County, Ohio, entered a little-used building for regular repair work and stumbled upon a suspicious cache of black boxes. On opening the boxes, so the story went, he discovered thousands of...

... University 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 212 of 246 Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy. By Louis A. Renza. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xix, 277 pp. $44.95...

... González, and the Poetics of Culture . By María Eugenia Cotera. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2008. xi, 286 pp. $60.00. Book Reviews Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770– 1860. By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi, 348 pp. 2009...

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...J. Peter Moore Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry . By Shockley Evie . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xii , 264 pp. Paper , $39.95 . Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s...

...Tyrone Williams After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics across the Atlantic . By Infante Ignacio . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2013 . xiv , 217 pp. $45.00 . The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas . By...

.... Jerome D. DeNuccio, Graceland University The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James. By Christoph Irmscher. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 1999. xvii, 354 pp. $42.00...

... American Literature . By Michael Soto. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. 228 pp. $39.95. Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity . By Karen Jackson Ford. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. 205 pp. $ 35.00. Book Reviews New England’s Crises and Cultural...

.... $29.95. A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry . By Susan M. Schultz. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2005. viii, 248 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $36.00. Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation . By Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of...

..., the gothic terror of a world of risk produces apocalypticism as a symptom and realism as a solution. 6 Even when apocalypse is recognized as a potentially valuable tool for approaching risk—as in Ursula K. Heise’s ( 2008 , 141) insight that in a world of world-threatening danger “apocalyptic...

...Maria Damon © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 . By Timothy Yu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 192 pp. $45.00. Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry after 1945...

... Jazz (1961), which renders his dual commitment to a black transnationalist public and an innovative African diaspora jazz poetics. Ask Your Mama features the interaction of African cultures in the Americas and Africa, with its evocation of Afro-Caribbean as well as African American music and its...

...- litical realities such as the threat of nuclear annihilation. His gambit is to concede that Cold War conditions really did harm mainstream poetic practice but to demonstrate as well that returning these poems to their social texts improves our experience and understanding of them. Chapters on the role...

... Woolf and William Faulkner used formally experimental novels to reconceive the traditionally poetic mode of the elegy. Though these authors are rarely discussed together, Penner sees them as “complementary” in that both challenge the Freudian view of mourning and the conventional idealism of lyric elegy...

..., and Paterson 603 the conception of filth and ‘‘What goes on with people’’ are the stuff of an intriguingly open-ended poetics that resists conventional moralism. While Geoffrey Hartman understands modern poets’ inter...