The Barnes & Noble Holiday Gift Guide! Shop NowThe Barnes & Noble Holiday Gift Guide! Shop Now

Modern Poetry after Modernism

Paperback
$77.00
Rewards iconEarn 5X Rewards 1/1 - 12/31
Loading availability...
Pick up in store
Your local store may have stock of this item.

In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse range of poets—John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur—Longenbach reveals that American …