City Poems and American Urban Crisis : 1945 to the Present.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics Series .
- Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: City Poems and American Urban Crisis -- 1 Writing around Williams: Paterson and Experimental Urban Poetics -- 2 Community and Crisis in Los Angeles Poetry -- 3 The "Curious" Languages of New York: George Oppen and Critical Urban Theory -- 4 Reading "Bronzeville": Poetics of Neighborhood I -- 5 Organizing "El Barrio" and the "Loisaida": Poetics of Neighborhood II -- 6 Poetry and Progressive Planning -- Notes -- Introduction: City Poems and American Urban Crisis -- 1 Writing around Williams: Paterson and Experimental Urban Poetics -- 2 Community and Crisis in Los Angeles Poetry -- 3 The "Curious" Languages of New York: George Oppen and Critical Urban Theory -- 4 Reading "Bronzeville": Poetics of Neighborhood I -- 5 Organizing "El Barrio" and the "Loisaida": Poetics of Neighborhood II -- 6 Poetry and Progressive Planning -- Index.
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American poetry-20th century-History and criticism. Cities and towns in literature. Urban poor in literature. Civil rights in literature.