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Title

The American sonnet : an anthology of poems and essays / edited by Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith.

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors

• Malech, Dora
• Smith, Laura T., 1975-

Description

xiv, 367 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays showcases the diversity of the American sonnet. 800 years after the sonnet's invention, this volume celebrates the extraordinary development of the sonnet in the hands of American poets-and those living under US empire-from traditional to experimental, political and personal. Edited by poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith, this anthology collects and foregrounds an impressive range of 20th and 21st century sonnets, including formal and formally subversive sonnets by established and emerging poets, and presents these alongside a selection of earlier American sonnets, highlighting connections across literary moments and movements. The critical essays likewise draw together diverse voices, methodologies, and historical and theoretical perspectives that represent the burgeoning field of American sonnet studies. Malech and Smith capture the central questions for American sonneteers. Who belongs to the tradition of the American sonnet? How do translation and multicultural and transnational identities complicate the Americanness of the "American" sonnet? How do Black, queer, trans, neurodiverse, working class, Appalachian, and Deaf poets claim the sonnet and how does it serve them? How do American poets experiment with meter, stanza, rhyme, lineation, and visuality to make the sonnet their own? And how are American sonneteers writing about love, loss, and trauma in new ways that change the sonnet tradition? The American Sonnet shows the form continuing to function as a poetic bellwether as centuries of poets use its peculiar confines to negotiate questions of nation, race, class, gender, sexuality, diaspora, and poetic tradition"--

Subject

• Sonnets, American
• Sonnets, American > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: POEMS -- Sonnet III On the Prospect of Peace, in 1783 / David Humphreys -- To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1768 / Phillis Wheatley -- Sonnet -- To an American Painter Departing for Europe "ti Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) / William Cullen Bryant -- Woods: A Prose Sonnet / Walt Whitman -- I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- That boy, the farmer said, with hazel wand -- Sometimes I walk where the deep water dips -- Her Eyes / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The New Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Assurance -- One Night / Lizette Woodworth Reese -- A January Dandelion / George Marion McClellan -- Placido's Farewell to His Mother / James Weldon Johnson -- Slow through the Dark / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1900 / Alexander Posey -- Electrocution / Lola Ridge -- The Matrix / Amy Lowell -- Sonnets That Please / Gertrude Stein -- Hyla Brook / Robert Frost -- To Madame Curie / Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson -- The New Negro / Lucian B. Watkins -- "So Quietly" / Leslie Pinckney Hill -- A Plum / Mani Leyb -- Sonnet / Elinor Wylie -- Sonnet / Fradel Shtok -- If We Must Die / Claude McKay -- America -- From "Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree" / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Sonnet I -- Next to of course god america i / E. E. Cummings -- From "Sonnets from the Cherokee" / Ruth Muskrat Bronson -- Roman Fountain / Louise Bogan -- Phallus / John Wheelwright -- From "Seven Moments of Love: An un-sonnet sequence in Blues" / Langston Hughes -- Two Weeks -- From the Dark Tower / Countee Cullen -- A Missionary Brings a Young Native to America / Helene Johnson -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem -- Sonnet / Elizabeth Bishop -- Sonnet of Intimacy -- Sonnet / Muriel Rukeyser -- Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden -- The Struggle Staggers Us / Margaret Walker -- History / Robert Lowell -- Kitchenette Building / Gwendolyn Brooks -- The rites for Cousin Vit -- A Lovely Love -- This Tall Horseman, My Young Man of Mars / Dunstan Thompson -- Moonshot Sonnet / Mary Ellen Solt -- The Beginning / Mona Van Duyn -- The Feast of Stephen / Anthony Hecht -- The Broken Home / James Merrill -- May Morning / James Wright -- From "Twenty-One Love Poems" / Adrienne Rich -- Butchering / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Sonnet: To Eva / Sylvia Plath -- Sonnet XXXIV / Ted Berrigan -- Sunflower Sonnet Number Two / June Jordan -- The death of fred clifton / Lucille Clifton -- "Vagina" Sonnet / Joan Larkin -- The Eye of the Storm / Lyn Hejinian -- I want this love to be resilient / Marilyn Hacker -- The bride is in the parlor, dear confection / Ellen Bryant Voigt -- MMDCCXIIP/z / Lorenzo Thomas -- Sonnet (You jerk you didn't call me up) / Bernadette Mayer -- New Rooms / Kay Ryan -- Say Uncle -- American Sonnet 18 / Wanda Coleman -- American Sonnet 19 -- Tears, through the patchwork drapery of dream / Marilyn Nelson -- I come to cafe, I sit, I bear / Aaron Shurin -- Sonnet for Her Labor / Maggie Anderson -- Glass Is Not Crystalline / Richard Kenney -- Postcard from Kashmir / Agha Shahid Ali -- From "33" / Julia Alvarez -- Questionnaire / Charles Bernstein -- From "Salutations in Search Of" / Patricia Smith -- The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / Diane Seuss -- Arte Povera / Henri Cole -- Givingly / Carl Phillips -- Against Teleology / Jackie K. White -- When / Elizabeth Alexander -- Millie and Christine McKoy / Tyehimba Jess -- Graveyard Blues / Natasha Trethewey -- From "Four Sonnets about Food" / Adrienne Su -- Nude Palette / Anna Maria Hong -- From "The Black and White Sonnet Series" / Giovanni Singleton -- Ismail & Abla to Ahmed, Their Son / Philip Metres -- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (The song must be cultural, confessional, clear) / Terrance Hayes -- American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin (I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison) -- From "Nets" / Jen Bervin -- Kiddo / Nathan Spoon -- Sonnet Done Red / Douglas Kearney -- From "Toxic Sonnets" / Joyelle McSweeney -- Duplex / Jericho Brown -- The Tradition -- From "Ka Òlelo: elima'" / Brandy Nalani McDougall -- My American Crown / Natalie Diaz -- Reading Celan at the Liberation War Museum / Tarfia Faizullah -- Love in a Time of Climate Change / Craig Santos Perez -- Lacing: XII / Tacey M. Atsitty -- From "Boy Corona": Crucifying / Meg Day -- The Alien Crown (The conquerers came and wrote the conquered into being) / Lo Kwa Mei-en -- African american literature / Nate Marshall -- Ars Poetica or Sonnet to Be Written across My Chest & Read in a Mirror, Beginning with a Line from Kimiko Hahn / Torrin A. Greathouse -- ESSAYS: THE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL SONNET -- Self-Metaphorizing "American" Sonnets / Jahan Ramazani -- The Rising Poems of America: Nationalistic Origins of the American Sonnet / Benjamin Crawford -- Origins of Rupture: Emerson, Wheatley, and the Early American Sonnet / John James -- E. E. Cummings: The Iconic Metasonnet and the Cultural Emblem of the American "i/Eye" / Gillian Huang-Tiller -- Sonnets into the American: Translation and Transnation in the Harlem Renaissance / Timo Muller -- Claude McKay's Lonely Planet: The Sonnet Sequence and the Global City / Walt Hunter -- John Wheelwright, Sound Engineer / Matthew Kilbane -- The Resonances of McKay's Sonnet Voice, Then and Now / Donna Denize -- WHOSE SONNET? -- Whose Sonnet? (A Transgression) / Carl Phillips -- The Sonnet As: Neuroqueerness in the American Sonnet / Nathan Spoon -- "From the you to me": Interpersonal Exchange in Margaret Walker's For My People Sonnet Sequence / Ariel Martino -- The Sonnet Is Not a Luxury / Lisa L. Moore -- Mapping Radical Poetic Geographies: The Sonnets of Frank X Walker and Maggie Anderson / Jodie Childers -- Subverting the Tradition in The Tradition: Jericho Brown's Rgconceptualization of the Sonnet / Michael Dumanis -- Deafing the Sonnet / Meg Day -- WRESTLING WITH THE LANGUAGE AND TRADITION -- Wrestling with the Language: Dialect and Form in Paul Laurence Dunbar / Hollis Robbins -- Sensuous Waste in the Sonnets of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman / Zoe Pollak -- Frost in the Company of Shakespeare and Wordsworth / Jonathan F. S. Post -- Strange Voltas / Michael Theune -- Partial Visibility: Short-Lined Sonnets / Lesley Wheeler -- Sonnets and/as Boxes: Ken Taylor, Joseph Cornell, and the New Lyric Studies / Nate Mickelson -- Standing in One Place to Move: The Repeated-Line Sonnet / Rebecca Morgan Frank -- "This resonant, strange, vaulting roof": Contemporary Sonnets beyond Iambic Pentameter / Anna Lena Phillips Bell -- Kay Ryan's Miniature Sonnets / Diana Leca -- Restaging the American "Freakshow" in Olio: Tyehimba Jess's Syncopated Sonnets / Mario Starr -- HOME, INFERIORITY, INTIMACY -- Broken Hearts and Broken Homes: The Desolation of the American Sonnet / Stephen Regan -- Helene Johnson's "Barbaric Songs," "Choked" / Eleanor Wakefield -- But Could a Dream: Form and Freedom in Gwendolyn Brooks's Domestic Sonnets / Tess Taylor -- Gwendolyn Brooks's Esoteric Sonnet "A Lovely Love" as an Alchemical Metatext / Jon Woodson -- Three Mothers, Two Eves: Female Virtuosity and Outrage in the American Sonnet / Anna Maria Hong -- A Plummy Sonnet by Mani Leyb / Jordan Finkin -- Eulogizing a Generation in Elizabeth Alexander's "When" / Abdul Ali -- Animals and the Self in Henri Cole's Middle Earth / Yuki Tanaka.

Call Number

JFE 23-1174

ISBN

• 9781609388713
• 1609388712
• 9781609388720 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022017117

OCLC

1334896600

Title

The American sonnet : an anthology of poems and essays / edited by Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith.

Publisher

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Malech, Dora, editor.

Smith, Laura T., 1975- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: American sonnet Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022] 9781609388720 (DLC) 2022017118

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1174