This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such m

This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, ma

Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.

This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.