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A poet walks into a bar ... this book explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, the book finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. The book draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. It reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging.

American poetry --- Humor in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Berryman, John, --- Lowell, Robert, --- Ammons, A. R., --- Hayes, Terrance --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ammons, Archie Randolph, --- Smith, John Allyn --- aesthetics of comedy, Shameful self, Humor in American poetry, comic theory.

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Snodgrass, William De Witt, 1926 . Interviews --- American poetry --- Poets, American --- Poetry --- History and criticism. --- Interviews. --- Authorship. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, Jr. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Berryman, John --- Jarrell, Randall --- Roethke, Theodore --- Plath, Sylvia --- Olson, Charles --- Bishop, Elizabeth --- Ashbery, John Lawrence --- Rich, Adrienne --- Merwin, William Stanley --- Wright, James Arlington --- Nemerov, Howard --- Dickey, James --- Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon --- Interviews --- Belitt, Ben --- Kinnell, Galway --- Ammons, Archie Randolph --- Dugan, Alan --- Wagoner, David Russell --- Poésie américaine

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Over the past thirty years many poets have exhibited an increasing sensitivity to ecological thinking. But Leonard Scigaj is the first to define ecopoetry - Marked by its appreciation of nature as a series of self-regulating cyclic systems - as separate and distinct from nature or environmental poetry. Ecopoetry insists that the interests of humans must be balanced with the needs of nature. Focusing on the work of A. R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, W. S. Merwin, and Gary Snyder, America's foremost ecopoets, Scigaj explores each poet's depth of involvement in nature and his ability to use ordinary language that models biocentric ways of seeing nature. Just as a sustainable society does not depreciate its resource base, so a sustainable poetry does not restrict interest to textuality.

Ecology in literature. --- Nature conservation in literature. --- Environmental protection in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- American poetry --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Snyder, Gary, --- Ammons, A. R., --- Berry, Wendell, --- Merwin, W. S. --- Ammons, Archie Randolph, --- Merwin, William S., --- Merwin, William Stanley, --- Shih-nai-te, --- Snainter, Gkary, --- ゲイリ-スナイダ-, --- Knowledge --- Natural history. --- Écologie --- Nature --- Poésie américaine --- Merwin, William Stanley (1927-....) --- Berry, Wendell (1934-....) --- Ammons, A. R. (1926-....) --- Snyder, Gary (1930-....) --- Dans la littérature --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Critique et interprétation