Contents
Introduction: Contemporary Poetry and the Public Sphere / Jeffrey Gray and Ann Keniston
Part One: Redefining the Political
1. Homeland Insecurity and the Poetry of Engagement / Eleanor Wilner
2. The Poetry of Engagement and the Politics of Reading / Vernon Shetley
3. Twenty-First-Century Ecopoetry and the Scalar Challenges of the Anthropocene / Lynn Keller
Part Two: Redefining Authorship
4. The Politics of Docupoetry / Joseph Harrington
5. “Hands Off”: Official Language in Contemporary Poetry / Jeffrey Gray
6. Delivering Difficult News / Bob Perelman
Part Three: Redefining Identity
7. Frank Bidart’s Poetics of Engagement / Steven Gould Axelrod
8. Beyond Katrina: Ecopoetics, Memory, and Race / James McCorkle
9. Claudia Rankine and the Body Politic / Elisabeth A. Frost
Part Four: Redefining Poetics
10. Echo Revisions: Repetition, Politics, and the Problem of Value in Contemporary Engaged Poetry / Ann Keniston
11. Ambivalence and Despair / Kevin Prufer
12. Getting the World into the Poem: Information, Layering, and the Composite Poem / Tony Hoagland
Contributors