The New American Poetry, Personism, and the Cold War

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2023

Abstract

Stephan Delbos's deeply researched historical analysis provides new insight into American avant-garde poetry and art after World War II when, in its aftermath and the ensuing Cold War, certain poets and artists set American poetics on a new course. Delbos evaluates this movement from the perspective of recent Anglophone poetry whose concerns for identity and biography have left it oblivious to what was a fierce contest over a half century ago. Yet the famous anthology, The New American Poetry, 1945-1960, has changed the terms of American poetry even into the present. The poets and editors involved in that bygone struggle were not immune to the Cold War's effects both at home and abroad; in fact both the avant-garde poetry and the contemporaneous avant-garde art, in being appropriated for the global struggle, also directly or indirectly reflected that struggle in the work.

Identifier

85184472230 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Journal of Modern Literature

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.2979/jml.00013

e-ISSN

15291464

ISSN

0022281X

First Page

180

Last Page

191

Issue

1

Volume

47

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