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This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States. Close reading is the primary method. The figures discussed in the book were born from 1911 to the post-war years after 1945. The volume proceeds from Marshall McLuhan as a poet through Douglas LePan, Ted Hughes, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Thomas King and Forrest Gander to Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, Fred Wah (interpoetics, poetry and culture in Chinese diasporic poetry), Louis Riel, Pauline Johnson, Naomi McIlwraith (Indigenous and Métis poetry), Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Joan Kane, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin and Forrest Gander (the multiple makings of poetry of North America). Here is a poetry of the North Atlantic world, a transatlantic poetics then and now. The book reads poetry and the poetic in terms of media, aesthetics, drama, criticism, music, interpoetics, diaspora, culture, diversity, and African, Asian and Indigenous poets.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.Marshall McLuhan: Poetry and Culture
2. Douglas LePan: Myth, Lyric and Culture
3. Ted Hughes: Context, Drama and the Archive
4. Leonard Cohen: Context, Lyric and Poetics
5. Forrest Gander, Thomas King and Margaret Atwood : Poetry, Nature, Culture
6. Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin and Fred Wah: Poetry, Interpoetics and the Chinese Diaspora
7. Louis Riel, Pauline Johnson and Naomi McIlwraith: Métis Poetry, Literary, Cultural and Liminal Space
8. Conclusion
Index
