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Ideas, culture, and capital now flow across national borders with unprecedented ease, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in this globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the porousness of world poetry, he argues, stands to radicalize the current transnational turn in the humanities. "Poetry in a Global Age" builds on Ramazani's award-win...

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This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.

What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse, " in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. In this book, the author reveals modern and contemporary poetry's animated dialogue with other genres and discourses.

Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. W. B. Yeats: A Postcolonial Poet?3. The Wound of Postcolonial History: Derek Walcott's Omeros4. Metaphor and Postcoloniality: A. K. Ramanujan's Poetry5. Irony and Postcoloniality: Louise Bennett's Anancy Poetics6. The Poet as "Native Anthropologist": Ethnography and Antiethnography in Okot p'Bitek's SongsCoda: On HybridityNotesIndex

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A new edition of the acclaimed anthology the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English available.

Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry-now available in two paperback volumes-includes 1, 596 poems by 195 poets (half of the poems are new), from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late nineteenth century to Anne Carson and Sherm...

Called the "mother of beauty" by Wallace Stevens, death has been perhaps the favorite muse of modern poets. From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death, religious doubt, and forgotten ritual. For this reason, Jahan Ramazani argues, the elegy, one of the most ancient of poetic genres, has remained one of the most vital to modern poets. Throug...

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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.