Challenging the common perception of poets as standing apart
from the mainstream of American culture, Robert von Hallberg gives
us a fresh and unpredictable assessment of the poetry that has come
directly out of the American experience since 1945.
Who reads contemporary American poetry? More people than were
reading new poetry in the 1920s, von Hallberg shows. How do poets
respond to the public preoccupations of their readers? Often with
fascination. Von Hallberg put the poems of Robert Creetey and John
Ashbery together with the postwar outburst of systems analysis. The
1950s tourist poems of John Hollander, Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin,
and James Merrill are treated as the cultural side of America's
postwar rise to global political power There are chapters on the
political poems of the 1950s and 1960s, and on Robert Lowell's
sympathy forthe imperialism of his liberal contemporaries. Poems of
the 1970s on pop culture, especially Edward Dorn's Slinger and some
from the suburbs of the 1980s are shown to reflect a curious peace
between the literary and the mass cultures.
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