Places in the Making: A Cultural Geography of American Poetry

by Jim Cocola

Places in the Making maps a range of twentieth- and twenty-first century American poets who have used language to evoke the world at various scales. Distinct from related traditions including landscape poetry, nature poetry, and pastoral poetry--which tend toward more idealized and transcendent lyric registers--this study traces a poetics centered upon more particular and situated engagements with actual places and spaces. Close generic predecessors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609384113
• ISBN13: 9781609384111
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"