The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

Jennifer Ashton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she teaches literary theory and the history of poetry. She is author of From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century and has published articles in Modernism/Modernity, Modern Philology, American Literary History and the Western Humanities Review.

Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of publications and events; Chronology of poets; 1. Periodizing American poetry since 1945 Jennifer Ashton; 2. From the late modernism of the objectivists to the proto-postmodernism of 'Project Verse' Mark Scroggins; 3. Confessional poetry Deborah Nelson; 4. Surrealism as a living modernism: what the New York poets learned from two generations of New York painting Charles Altieri; 5. The San Francisco renaissance Michael Davidson; 6. Three generations of Beat poetics Ronna C. Johnson; 7. The poetics of chant and inner/outer space: the Black Arts movement Margo Natalie Crawford; 8. Feminist poetries Lisa Sewell; 9. Ecopoetries in America Nick Selby; 10. Language writing Steve McCaffery; 11. Post-1945 American poetry and its institutions Hank Lazer; 12. The contemporary 'mainstream' lyric Christina Pugh; 13. Poems in and out of school: Allen Grossman and Susan Howe Oren Izenberg; 14. Rap, hip-hop, spoken word Michael W. Clune; 15. Poetry of the twenty-first century: the first decade Jennifer Ashton; Index.