Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxiv
Part I
1 “To Get the News from Poems”: Poetry as Genre 3 Jahan Ramazani
2 What Was New Formalism? 17 David Caplan
3 Meter 34 Peter L. Groves
4 The Stanza: Echo Chambers 53 Debra Fried
5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode 64 Ann Keniston
6 English Elegies 77 Neil Roberts
7 The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem? 93 Eve C. Sorum
8 Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 104 Lisa Sewell
9 On “the Beat Inevitable”: The Ballad 117 Romana Huk
10 Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina 139 Nicole Ollier
11 The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds 157 Maria Johnston
12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle 171 Karen Jackson Ford
13 Looping the Loop: Terza Rima 188 George Szirtes
14 Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything 206 Michael Hinds
15 “Named Airs”: American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart) 220 Meg Tyler
16 African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity 234 Jeff Westover
17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 250 Patrick Jackson
18 Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet 263 David Wheatley
19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku 277 Peter Harris
20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry 293 Geoff Ward
21 “Gists and Piths”: The Free-Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry 306 Marie-Christine Lemardeley
22 The Emergent Prose Poem 318 Andy Brown
23 Concrete/Visual Poetry 330 Fiona McMahon
24 Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry 348 Hélène Aji
25 Modes of Found Poetry 361 Lacy Rumsey
Part II
26 “Horny Morning Mood”: The Aubade and Alba 379 Kit Fryatt
27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne 390 Erik Martiny
28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 404 Rachel Falconer
29 The Aisling 420 Bernard O’Donoghue
30 The Printed Voice 435 Yann Tholoniat
31 Rewriting the People’s Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956 446 John Thieme
32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: “Awful but Cheerful” 459 Bonnie Costello
33 Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse 478 Todd Nathan Thompson
34 Poetry and Its Occasions: “Undoing the Folded Lie” 490 Stephen Wilson
35 On Verse Letters 505 Philip Coleman
36 “Containing History”: Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre 521 Alex Runchman
37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem 532 Jennifer Clarvoe
38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 543 Rainer Emig
39 Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem 555 Jo Gill
40 “From Arcadia to Bunyah”: Mutation and Diversity in the Pastoral Mode 568 Karina Williamson
41 Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry 584 Mark Scroggins
42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 598 Stephen Burt
43 Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum 614 Jonathan Ellis
Index 627
