{"product_id":"situating-poetry-joshua-logan-wall-9781421443782","title":"Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American Modernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this question challenges common assumptions about modern poetry and requires that we explore the important questions that define genre: Where is this poem situated, and how did it get there?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Logan Wall's \u003ci\u003eSituating Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e studies five poets of the New York literary scene rarely considered together: James Weldon Johnson, Charles Reznikoff, Lola Ridge, Louis Zukofsky, and Robert Hayden. Charting their works and careers from 1910-1940, Wall illustrates how these politically marginalized writers from drastically different religious backgrounds wrestled with their status as American outsiders. These poets produced a secularized version of America in which poetry, rather than God, governed individual obligations to one another across multiethnic barriers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdopting a multiethnic and pluralist approach, Wall argues that each of these poets--two Black, two Jewish, and one Irish-American anarchist--shares a desire to create more truly democratic communities through art and through the covenantal publics created by their poems despite otherwise sitting uncomfortably, at best, within a more standard literary history. In this unique account of American modernist poetics, religious pluralism creates a lens through which to consider the bounds of solidarity and division within and among ethnic identities and their corresponding literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Logan Wall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421443783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421443782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d","brand":"Joshua Logan Wall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071441694975,"sku":"9781421443782","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cdff31cd-fef0-49da-b36f-c7f4a71ac8a9.jpg?v=1685436113","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/situating-poetry-joshua-logan-wall-9781421443782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}