American Poetry

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This course studies selected American poets, emphasizing cultural contexts, national identity, use of vernacular language, and formal innovations. It may include authors from South America and throughout North America as well as in the U.S. One recent seminar focused on the engagement of twenty-first century North American poetries with ecopoetics, mass culture, and monetization. Another explored specific movements in modernist poetry, including Imagism, the Objectivist Movement, The Fugitive Movement, the Confessional School, the New York School, the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat Movement, the Deep Image School, the Black Mountain School, the Language Poetry Movement, the New Formalism.