City poems and American urban crisis : 1945 to the present / / Nate Mickelson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819193803321
• Autore: Mickelson Nate
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2019
• ISBN: 1-350-05581-6; 1-350-05580-8; 1-350-05579-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Collana: Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics
• Disciplina: 811/.509321732
• Soggetti: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Civil rights in literature; Urban poor in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: City poems and American urban crisis -- Writing around Williams: Paterson and experimental urban poetics -- Community and crisis in Los Angeles poetry -- The curious languages of New York: George Oppen and critical urban theory -- Reading Bronzeville: poetics of Neighborhood I -- Organizing El Barrio and the Loisaida: poetics of Neighborhood II -- Poetry and progressive planning.
• Sommario/riassunto: "From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg to Miguel Algar n and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America's changing urban experience since 1945. City Poems and American Urban Crisis brings post-war American poetry into conversation with developments in city planning, activism, and urban theory to demonstrate that taking city poetry seriously as a mode of analysis and critique can enhance our attempts to produce more just and equitable urban futures. Poets covered include: Miguel Algar n, Gwendolyn Brooks, Wanda Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Lewis MacAdams, Charles Olson, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams."--Bloomsbury Publishing.