TY - BOOK ID - 136143003 TI - Modern American Poetry AU - Freitag, Kornelia AU - Reed, Brian PY - 2013 SN - 3825373770 9783825373771 PB - Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter DB - UniCat KW - American poetry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136143003 AB - Hauptbeschreibung How to read - and how to teach poetry? The present volume on ''Modern American Poetry'' assembles ten essays that distill and share tips, facts, arguments, interpretations, and techniques that a number of German and American scholars believe to be helpful when reading and teaching American poetry. The essays introduce topics such as the poetry of war and postmodern poetic experimentation, dwell on teaching Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Frank O''Hara, and relate the experiences of translating texts by the African American poet June Jordan in the classroom. Imagism and c ER -