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"Emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and activism, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, and gender subjectivities. Rather than consider poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this volume's poets create spaces, forms, and modes for entering the public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the contemporary" --

Poets, American. --- Political poetry, American. --- American poetry --- American political poetry --- American poets

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry and Politics shows how American poets have addressed political phenomena since 1900. This book helps students, teachers, and general readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics. Offering detailed case studies, this book discusses the relationships between poetry and social views found in work by well-established authors such as Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as lesser known, but influential figures such as Muriel Rukeyser. This book also emphasizes the crucial role contemporary African-American poets such as Claudia Rankine and leading spoken word poets play in documenting political themes in our current moment. Individual chapters focus on specific political issues - race, institutions, propaganda, incarceration, immigration, environment, war, public monuments, history, technology - in a memorable and teachable way for poetry students and teachers.

American poetry --- Politics and literature --- Political poetry, American --- Politics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism.

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"The first book-length study of Thomas Paine as a poet, this book also examines his use of poetic epigraphs, his image in eighteenth-century political poetry, and his influence on later American poets"--

Revolutionaries --- Poets, American --- Epigraphs (Literature) --- Political poetry, American --- American poetry --- American literature --- Quotations --- History and criticism. --- Paine, Thomas, --- Influence. --- Literary style. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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American poetry --- Modernism (Literature) --- Nineteen thirties --- Political poetry, American --- Radicalism in literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Political and social views.

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Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the present. He brings together a unique and diverse collection of poets, including an innovative section on hip hop performance.

Political poetry, American --- Hip-hop --- American poetry --- Politics and literature --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- History --- Poetry. --- Culture --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry and Poetics. --- North American Literature. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Study and teaching. --- America --- Literatures.