Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry

Craig Svonkin is Executive Director of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association and Professor of English at Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA.Steven Gould Axelrod is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, USA. He is co-editor of The New Anthology of American Poetry: Volumes 1-3 (2002-2012), editor of Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2019) and a former President of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (2004-6).

Handbooks of this kind rarely – if ever – give the poets themselves the microphone. I wish more would follow The Bloomsbury’s example. The questions poised are provocative and the answers illuminating (and sometimes suggestively elusive) ... A charming, idiosyncratic, and weirdly seductive map to a whole lot of poems.

• Acknowledgments Introduction, Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould AxelrodPart One Roots and Branches of the Contemporary1. A Conversation with Marjorie Perloff Susan McCabe, Brian Reed, and Steven Gould Axelrod2. The Feminist Poetry Movement in America Bethany Hicok3. American Poetry and War Cary Nelson4. Experimental Asian American Poetry Josephine Nock-Hee Park5. Undisciplined Writing: Postwar Prose Poetry Michel Delville6. Lowell’s Turtles Stephanie Burt7. Subjectivity and Identity in New York School Poetry Terence Diggory8. Jewish American Poetry and the Late Twentieth-Century Literary Canon Hilene Flanzbaum9. The Autobiographical Prose of Poets Grzegorz Kosc10. Queer Poetry after 1945 Laura Westengard11. From Shingled Hippo to Gay Unicorn: Self-Othering in Bob Kaufman and Other Beats Craig Svonkin12. The National Anthology Wars and West Coast Anthologies Bill Mohr13. The Black Art of Confession Steven Gould Axelrod14. Binding Nation-States: Poetry Anthologies of Hawai‘i, 1966–2018 Stanley Orr15. The Poetics of Chicana Daughterhood: Cherrie Moraga and Lorna Dee Cervantes Lisette Ordovica LasaterPart Two Interviews with Poets16. Mitsuye Yamada Steven Gould Axelrod, Craig Svonkin, and Traise Yamamoto17. Marilyn Nelson Craig Svonkin18. Rae Armantrout Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin19. Lorna Dee Cervantes Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin20. Marilyn Chin Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig Svonkin21. Geof Huth Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.22. Juan Delgado Craig Svonkin23. Claudia Rankine Andrew Lyndon Knighton24. Crisosto Apache Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod25. Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Steven Gould Axelrod and Craig SvonkinPart Three The Contemporary Moment26. A Conversation with Stephanie Burt Craig Svonkin and Steven Gould Axelrod27. Ecopoetics: In and against the American Grain James McCorkle28. Economies of Scale: Contemporary Poetry and the Marketplace Ann Keniston29. Contemporary Children’s Poetry: A Colloquy Craig Svonkin, Mike Cadden, Richard Flynn, Michael Heyman, Krystal Howard,Michael Joseph, JonArno Lawson, Lissa Paul, and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.30. Multilingual American Poetry and Poetics Maria Lauret31. Claiming Their Place: Contemporary Arab American Poetry and Poetics Richard Hishmeh32. The Rise of Award-Winning Black Poets Howard Rambsy II33. The Fourth Wave in Native American Poetics Erika T. Wurth34. Recent Trends in Jewish American Poetry Norman Finkelstein35. What Is the Queer Confessional? Jan Maramot Rodil36. Poetry Translation and Poet-Translators Brian Reed37. Prosthetic Poetics: Contemporary Poetry of Disability Jessica Lewis Luck38. Data Dump: Poetry and Information in the Twenty-First Century Jeffrey GrayList of Contributors Index