Poems of the American Empire: The Lyric Form in the Long Twentieth Century PDF
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Poems of the American Empire The New American Canon The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture Samuel Cohen, series editor Poems of the American Empire the lyric form in the long twentieth century Jen Hedler Phillis University of Iowa Press / Iowa City University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright © 2019 by the University of Iowa Press www.uipress.uiowa.edu Printed in the United States of America Design by Omega Clay No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach. Printed on a cid- free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Phillis, Jen Hedler, 1980– author. Title: Poems of the American empire : the lyric form in the long twentieth century / Jen Hedler Phillis. Description: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019] | Series: The new American canon : the Iowa series in contemporary literature and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: lccn 2019002001 (print) | lccn 2019018913 (ebook) | isbn 978-1-60938-662-7 (ebook) | isbn 978-1-60938-661-0 (paperback : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: American poetry—20th century—H istory and criticism. | Politics and literature— United States— History—20th century. Classification: lcc ps323.5 (ebook) | lcc ps323.5 .p54 2019 (print) | ddc 811/.040905—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019002001 For Nanette, Avery, and Chris contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Poems Including History 1 1 We Are All Pound Now / The Cantos and the Shape of the Economy 21 2 The All- Over Poem / William Carlos Williams’s Egalitarian Aesthetics 53 3 Dido’s Secret / The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Limits of Lyric 86 4 The New Stone Age / Contemporary Poets on the Beginning of the American Empire 118 Coda. In Search of Lost Causes / Toward a Lyric Interpretation of History 148 Notes 161 Works Cited 183 Index 193 acknowledgments To Nicholas Brown, Jennifer Ashton, Joshua Clover, Peter Coviello, and Walter Benn Michaels; to Sam Cohen, Ranjit Arab, and Meredith Stabel at the University of Iowa Press; and to my friends, family, colleagues, and comrades, Vin, Lisa, Whitman, and Everson Adiutori, Nicole Aschoff, Marc Baez, Dr. Guada Bastos, Brent Ryan Bellamy, Ryan Brooks, Karen Cralli, Angela Dancey, Currey Dorris, Ashleigh Evans, Julie Fiorelli, Kevin Floyd, Shawn Gude, Mary Hale, Tenney Hammond, all six Kidwells, Laura Krughoff, Lindsay Marshall, Megan McLeod, Matt Moraghan, P iper- Lori Parker, Nanette Perez, Jon, Ursula, and Debbie Phillis, Chris Rhodes, Neri Sandoval, Emilio Sauri, Davis Smith-B recheisen, Josh and Shannon Stephany- Hammond, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Micah Uetricht: thanks, and I’ll shut up about Pound now. And Richard, how could I do anything at a ll— let alone anything this good— without you?
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