Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous - 'stubbornly
national,' in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or 'the most provincial of the
arts,' according to W. H. Auden. But in "A Transnational Poetics",
Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic
imagination - in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in
post-World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in
ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing.
Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the
chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. Reexamining the work of a wide array of
poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop,
Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways
in which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows
national borders and exceeds the scope of national literary
paradigms. Through a variety of transnational templates -
globalization, migration, travel, genre, influence, modernity,
decolonization, and diaspora - he discovers poetic connection and
dialogue across nations and even hemispheres. Exceptionally
wide-ranging in scope yet rigorously focused on particulars, "A
Transnational Poetics" demonstrates how poetic analysis can foster
an aesthetically attuned transnational literary criticism that is
at the same time alert to modernity's global condition.
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