A Poetics of Global Solidarity

Clemens Spahr is a Junior Professor in the Department of English/American Studies at the Mainz University, Germany.

Introduction 1. "Blazing Signals of a World in Birth": Lyrical Expression and International Solidarity from the Literary Left to the Popular Front 2. Global Harlem: The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance 3. Remapping America: The Epic Geography of Post-World War II American Poetry 4. From Cuba to Vietnam: Anti-Imperialist Poetics and Global Solidarity in the Long Sixties 5. Contemporary American Poetry and the Legacy of the Third World 6. Contemporary American Poetry, Literary Tradition, and the Multitude Conclusion