Selected Bibliography 1980-1999

Baker Dorothy Z. ed. Poetics in the Poem: Critical Essays on American Self-Reflexive Poetry. NY: Peter Lang,, 1997.

Blasing, Mutlu K. American Poetry: The Rhetoric of Its Forms. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.

Bly, Robert. American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity. NY: Harper & Row, 1990. PS323.5.B63

Brown, Fahamisha P. Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1999.

Cushman, Stephen. Fictions of Form in American Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.

Daniels, Jim. ed. Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1995.

Duke, Charles R. and Sall A. Jacobsen. eds. Poets' Perspectives: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992.

Edelberg, Cynthia D. ed. Scars: American Poetry in the Face of Violence. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1995.

Erkkila, Betsy, and Jay Grossman. eds. Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies. NY: Oxford UP, 1996.

Evers, Larry, and Felipe S. Molina. Yaqui Deer Songs, Maso Bwikam: A Native American Poetry. Tucson: Sun Tracks with U of Arizona P, 1987.

Foster, Jeanne. A Music of Grace: The Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry. NY: Peter Lang,, 1995.

Golding, Alan. From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996.

Gregory, Elizabeth. Quotation and Modern American Poetry: "'Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads." Houston: Rice UP, 1996.

Hollander, John. ed. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, I: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman. NY: Library of America, 1993.

- - -. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, II: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spirituals. NY: Library of America, 1993.

Lee, A. Robert. ed. Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1985.

Leo, John R. and James Ruppert. Guide to American Poetry Explication. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1989. Ref. PS201.G85x

Morris, Timothy. Becoming Canonical in American Poetry. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1995.

Mulford Carla. ed. Teaching the Literatures of Early America. NY: Modern Lang,uage Association of America, 1999.

Myers, Jack, and David Wojahn. eds. A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Nelson, Cary. Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989.

Oser, Lee. T.S. Eliot and American Poetry. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1998.

Parini, Jay, and Brett C. Millier. eds. The Columbia History of American Poetry. NY: Columbia UP, 1993.

Revell, Peter. Quest in Modern American Poetry. London: Vision P, 1981. PS324.R4

Selinger, Eric M. What Is It Then between Us? Traditions of Love in American Poetry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1998.

Shucard, Alan. American Poetry: The Puritans through Walt Whitman. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990. PS303.S58

Shucard, Alan, William J. Sullivan, and Fred S. Moramarco. Modern American Poetry, 1865-1950. Boston: Twayne, 1989. PS323 S5

Smethurst, James E. The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946. NY: Oxford UP, 1999.

Stetson, Erlene. Black Sister: Poetry by Black American Women, 1746-1980. Bloomington: Indiana U P,1981. PS591.N4 B525

Turco, Lewis P. Visions and Revisions of American Poetry. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 1986.

Waggoner, Hyatt H. American Visionary Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U P,1982. PS310.V57 W33

White, Peter, ed. Puritan Poets and Poetics: Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice. U Park: Pennsylvania State U P, 1985. PS153.P87

Williams, Miller. Patterns of Poetry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1986. PN1042.W514

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Altieri, Charles. The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.

Axelrod, Steven G., and others. eds. The New Anthology of American Poetry, I: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2003.

Bennett, Paula B. Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003.

Burns, Allan. Thematic Guide to American Poetry. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

Churchill, Suzanne W. The Little Magazine Others and the Renovation of American Poetry. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Costello, Bonnie. Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.

Fletcher, Angus. A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.

Frost, Elisabeth A. The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2003.

Gabbin, Joanne V. ed. Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004.

Goldensohn, Lorrie. ed. American War Poetry: An Anthology. NY: Columbia UP, 2006.

Gray, Jeffrey. Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2005.

Jeffs, William P. Feminism, Manhood, and Homosexuality: Intersections in Psychoanalysis and American Poetry. NY: Peter Lang, 2003.

Kuhnheim, Jill S. Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century: Textual Disruptions. Austin: U of Texas P, 2004.

Lehman, David. ed. Oxford Book of American Poetry. NY: Oxford UP, 2006.

Lincoln, Kenneth. Sing with the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry, 1890-1999. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.

Loeffelholz, Mary. From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004.

Nelson, Cary. Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. NY: Routledge, 2001.

Newcomb, John T. Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2004.

Quetchenbach, Bernard W. Back From the Far Field; American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2000.

Rampersad, Arnold, and Mary Herbold. eds. The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry. NY: Oxford UP, 2005.

Richards, Eliza. Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. NY: Cambridge UP, 2004.

Schultz, Susan M. A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005.

Vincent, John. Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Woznicki, John R. Ideological Content and Political Significance of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2002.

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