{"id":245,"date":"2021-05-22T06:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T06:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/?page_id=245"},"modified":"2023-01-07T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T08:33:19","slug":"the-new-american-poetry-and-cold-war-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stephandelbos.com\/index.php\/literary-criticism\/the-new-american-poetry-and-cold-war-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Delbos\u2019s robust critique of Donald Allen\u2019s anthology as a product of cold war US nationalism is compelling… Critics and poets, students and scholars will find this book to be essential for understanding poetry\u2019s past, present, and future.” –W. Scott Howard, University of Denver<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This book examines Donald M. Allen\u2019s crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945\u20131960<\/em>, from the perspectives of American Cold War nationalism and literary transnationalism, considering how the anthology expresses and challenges Cold War norms, claiming post-war Anglophone poetic innovation for the United States and reflecting the conservative American society of the 1950s. Examining the crossroads of politics, social life, and literature during the Cold War, this book puts Allen\u2019s anthology into its historical context and reveals how the editor was influenced by the volatile climate of nationalism and politics that pervaded every aspect of American life during the Cold War. Reconsidering the dramatic influence that Allen\u2019s anthology has had on the way we think about and anthologize American poetry, and recontextualizing The New American Poetry<\/em> as a document of the Cold War, this study not only helps us come to a more accurate understanding of how the anthology came into being, but also encourages new ways of thinking about all of Anglophone poetry, from the twentieth century and today.<\/p>\n

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“Delbos\u2019s robust critique of Donald Allen\u2019s anthology as a product of cold war US nationalism is compelling. This book delivers a paradigm-shifting study of\u00a0The New American Poetry 1945\u20131960<\/i> that convincingly shows how Allen\u2019s ideological framework at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual politics charged the field(s) of debate in the US (and also in the UK) about the place of poetry within and beyond academia. Critics and poets, students and scholars will find this book to be essential for understanding poetry\u2019s past, present, and future.” –W. Scott Howard, author of\u00a0Archive and Artifact: Susan Howe\u2019s Factual Telepathy<\/i>\u00a0(2019), and editor of\u00a0Denver Quarterly<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(buy the book) “Delbos\u2019s robust critique of Donald Allen\u2019s anthology as a product of cold war US nationalism is compelling… Critics and poets, students and scholars will find this book to be essential for understanding poetry\u2019s past, present, and future.” –W. Scott Howard, University of Denver This book examines Donald M. Allen\u2019s crucially influential poetry … Continue reading The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":329,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t