Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.

The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-ce

A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerg

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.