A companion to poetic genre

A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 21
Acknowledgments......Page 26
Part I......Page 30
1: “To Get the News from Poems”: Poetry as Genre......Page 32
2: What Was New Formalism?......Page 46
3: Meter......Page 63
4: The Stanza: Echo Chambers......Page 82
5: Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode......Page 93
6: English Elegies......Page 106
7: The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem?......Page 122
8: Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal......Page 133
9: On “the Beat Inevitable”: The Ballad......Page 146
10: Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina......Page 168
11: The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds......Page 186
12: Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle......Page 200
13: Looping the Loop: Terza Rima......Page 217
14: Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything......Page 235
15: “Named Airs”: American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart)......Page 249
16: African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity......Page 263
17: The Liberties of Blank Verse......Page 279
18: Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet......Page 292
19: In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku......Page 306
20: On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry......Page 322
21: “Gists and Piths”: The Free-Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry......Page 335
22: The Emergent Prose Poem......Page 347
23: Concrete/Visual Poetry......Page 359
24: Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry......Page 377
25: Modes of Found Poetry......Page 390
Part II......Page 406
26: “Horny Morning Mood”: The Aubade and Alba......Page 408
27: Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne......Page 419
28: Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis......Page 433
29: The Aisling......Page 449
30: The Printed Voice......Page 464
31: Rewriting the People’s Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956......Page 475
32: Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: “Awful but Cheerful”......Page 488
33: Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse......Page 507
34: Poetry and Its Occasions: “Undoing the Folded Lie”......Page 519
35: On Verse Letters......Page 534
36: “Containing History”: Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre......Page 550
37: T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem......Page 561
38: Making War Poetry Contemporary......Page 572
39: Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem......Page 584
40: “From Arcadia to Bunyah”: Mutation and Diversity inthe Pastoral Mode......Page 597
41: Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry......Page 613
42: Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry......Page 627
43: Ekphrastic Poetry: \\In and Out of the Museum......Page 643
Index......Page 656