US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012

Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectuals through their poetic rhetoric. Piotr Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize the art of poetry and reaffirm its social value in an era of global politics and culture.

Piotr K. Gwiazda is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. He is the author of James Merrill and W.H. Auden (2007) and has also published two books of poetry, Gagarin Street (2005) and Messages (2012).

Introduction: Civic Poetry, 1979-2012
1. "Beyond My Outrage or My Admiration": Robert Pinsky's An Explanation of America
2. "Nothing Else Left to Read": Adrienne Rich's "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
3. "Who the Biggest Terrorist": Amiri Baraka's "Somebody Blew Up America"
4. Ether: Juliana Spahr, Ben Lerner, Lisa Jarnot
5. Dreams of a Common Language: Mark Nowak, Anne Boyer, Rodrigo Toscano
Coda: For Whom Does One Write?

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US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012

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