{"product_id":"situating-poetry-covenant-and-genre-in-american-modernism-paperback","title":"Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Logan Wall\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this question challenges common assumptions about modern poetry and requires that we explore the important questions that define genre: Where is this poem situated, and how did it get there?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Logan Wall's \u003ci\u003eSituating Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e studies five poets of the New York literary scene rarely considered together: James Weldon Johnson, Charles Reznikoff, Lola Ridge, Louis Zukofsky, and Robert Hayden. Charting their works and careers from 1910-1940, Wall illustrates how these politically marginalized writers from drastically different religious backgrounds wrestled with their status as American outsiders. These poets produced a secularized version of America in which poetry, rather than God, governed individual obligations to one another across multiethnic barriers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdopting a multiethnic and pluralist approach, Wall argues that each of these poets--two Black, two Jewish, and one Irish-American anarchist--shares a desire to create more truly democratic communities through art and through the covenantal publics created by their poems despite otherwise sitting uncomfortably, at best, within a more standard literary history. In this unique account of American modernist poetics, religious pluralism creates a lens through which to consider the bounds of solidarity and division within and among ethnic identities and their corresponding literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Logan Wall\u003c\/b\u003e (ANN ARBOR, MI) is a lecturer at the University of Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 11, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157656146055,"sku":"9781421443799","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/043258dc7f2cbde278549cd73854a851.webp?v=1733252595","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/situating-poetry-covenant-and-genre-in-american-modernism-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}