• List of Contributors


• Part I


• 1. A Century of Innovation: American Poetry from 1900 to the Present


• Cary Nelson


• Part II


• 2. Social Texts and Poetic Texts: Poetry and Cultural Studies


• Rachel Blau DuPlessis


• 3. American Indian Poetry at the Dawn of Modernism


• Robert Dale Parker


• 4. "Jeweled Bindings": Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality


• Melissa Girard


• 5. Hired Men and Hired Women: Modern American Poetry and the Labor Problem


• John Marsh


• 6. Economics and Gender in Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore


• Linda A. Kinnahan


• 7. Poetry and Rhetoric: Modernism and Beyond


• Peter Nicholls


• 8. Cézanne's Ideal of "Realization": A Useful Analogy for the Spirit of Modernity in American Poetry


• Charles Altieri


• 9. Stepping Out, Sitting In: Modern Poetry's Counterpoint with Jazz and the Blues


• Edward Brunner


• 10. Out With the Crowd: Modern American Poets Speaking to Mass Culture


• Tim Newcomb


• 11. Exquisite Corpse: Surrealist Influence on the American Poetry Scene, 1920-1960


• Susan Rosenbaum


• 12. Material Concerns: Incidental Poetry, Popular Culture, and Ordinary Readers in Modern America


• Mike Chasar


• 13. "With Ambush and Stratagem": American Poetry in the Age of Pure War


• Philip Metres


• 14. The Fight and the Fiddle in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry


• Karen Jackson Ford


• 15. Asian American Poetry


• Josephine Park


• 16. "The Pardon of Speech": The Psychoanalysis of Modern American Poetry


• Walter Kalaidjian


• 17. American Poetry, Prayer, and the News


• Jahan Ramazani


• 18. The Tranquilized Fifties: Forms of Dissent in Postwar American Poetry


• Michael Thurston


• 19. The End of the End of Poetic Ideology, 1960


• Al Filreis


• 20. Fieldwork in New American Poetry: From Cosmology to Discourse


• Lytle Shaw


• 21. "Do our chains offend you?": The Poetry of American Political Prisoners


• Mark W. Van Wienen


• 22. Disability Poetics


• Michael Davidson


• 23. Green Reading: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Environmental Criticism


• Lynn Keller


• 24. Transnationalism and Diaspora in American Poetry


• Timothy Yu


• 25. "Internationally Known": The Black Arts Movement and U.S. Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop


• James Smethurst


• 26. Minding Machines / Machining Minds: Writing (at) the Human-Machine Interface


• Adalaide Morris


• Index

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century.