The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry

Walter Kalaidjian is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past and editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism (Cambridge, 2005).

1. The emergence of 'the new poetry' John Timberman Newcomb; 2. Modern American archives and scrapbook modernism Bartholomew Brinkman; 3. Experimental modernism Alan Golding; 4. The legacy of New York Cary Nelson; 5. The modern American long poem Anne Day Dewey; 6. Objectivist poetry and poetics Rachel Blau DuPlessis; 7. American poetry and the popular front Alan Wald; 8. Tracking the fugitive poets Kieran Quinlan; 9. Midcentury modernism Stephen Burt; 10. American confessional verse Michael Thurston; 11. Black mountain poetry Kaplan Harris; 12. Beat poetry and the San Francisco renaissance Maria Damon; 13. The black arts movement and black aesthetics Evie Shockley; 14. New York School and American surrealist poetics Edward J. Brunner; 15. Land, place, and nation: toward an indigenous American poetics Janet McAdams; 16. Transpacific and Asian American counterpoetics Yunte Huang; 17. Language poetry Barrett Watten; 18. Poet-critics and bureaucratic administration Evan Kindley.