This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the richness and diversity of American poetry from 1945 to the present.

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

The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political, and economic landscape of twentieth-c

The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-ce

A new poetic century demands a new set of approaches. This Companion shows that American poetry of the twenty-first century, while having important continuities