Twentieth- and Twenty- First-Century Poetry

A study of poetry from World War II to the present. Topics may includeconfessional poetry and poetic autobiography; the New York School;language poetry; the Black Arts Movement; projectivism and the BlackMountain School; the Beat Generation. Writers may include John Ashbery, AmiriBaraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Kamau Brathwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, RobertCreeley, Allen Ginsberg, Nikki Giovanni, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, LynHejinian, Juan Felipe Herrera, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Larkin, Audre Lorde,Frank O’Hara, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Ntozake Shange,Derek Walcott, John Yau, and others associated with trends and movements ofcontemporary verse.

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