02934nam 22005771 450 991051140080332120211006015757.01-350-05581-61-350-05580-81-350-05579-410.5040/9781350055810(CKB)4100000006672539(MiAaPQ)EBC5516508(OCoLC)1035215778(UtOrBLW)bpp09262315(MiAaPQ)EBC6158451(EXLCZ)99410000000667253920181015d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCity poems and American urban crisis 1945 to the present /Nate MickelsonLondon :Bloomsbury Academic,2019.1 online resource (249 pages)Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics1-350-16629-4 1-350-05578-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismCities and towns in literatureCivil rights in literatureUrban poor in literatureLiterary studies: from c 1900 -Electronic books.American poetryHistory and criticism.Cities and towns in literature.Civil rights in literature.Urban poor in literature.811/.509321732Mickelson Nate1066989UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910511400803321City poems and American urban crisis2550300UNINA