Reviews
Wall balances a deep interest in form with an attentiveness to modes of poetic circulation, suggesting that an American covenantal public is created in part by recognizing its inability to live up to its promises. Situating Poetry is an elegant and incisive piece of criticism and a pleasure to read.
Situating Poetry offers a strikingly innovative approach to subjects all too often set apart. Focusing on an imaginatively curated group of poets from different ethnic, religious and racial backgrounds, Wall's deft interdisciplinary study seeks new narratives about multi-ethnic American modernism, religion and, above all, poetry. Situating Poetry is sure to inspire new ways of thinking about and literary history.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Covenantal Spaces
1. A Congregation of Readers: James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones
2. Renewing the Covenant: Charles Reznikoff's Recitative
Part II: Circulating
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Covenantal Spaces
1. A Congregation of Readers: James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones
2. Renewing the Covenant: Charles Reznikoff's Recitative
Part II: Circulating Modernism
3. Immigrant Publics: Lola Ridge On and Off the Page
4. Louis Zukofsky and the Poetics of Exodus
Part III: Limit Cases
5. A Covenantal Limit Case: Robert Hayden Beyond the Lyric
Coda: The House We Build Together
Notes
Index