Short Form American Poetry: The Modernist Tradition

A ground—breaking analysis of the short form lineage in twentieth—century American poetry
• Proposes a new genealogy of 20th century and contemporary American verse
• Contains in—depth discussion of key American poets and movements
• Will appeal to graduates and scholars in both the modernist and contemporary fields
Reading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse. It begins with Imagis...