Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with
unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking
part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to
contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame.
Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the
transnational turn in the humanities. Poetry in a Global Age builds
on Ramazani's award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that
had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his
lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation
to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in
light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies,
tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of
postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit
Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace
Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even
when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and
words, its connections across centuries, continents, and languages,
make it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age. This book
makes a strong case for poetry in the future development of world
literature and global studies.
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