The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in the American CenturyIn this highly original reexamination of North American poetry in English from Ezra Pound to the present day, Christopher Nealon demonstrates that the most vital writing of the period is deeply concerned with capitalism. This focus is not exclusive to the work of left-wing poets: the problem of capitalism’s effect on individuals, communities, and cultures is central to a wide variety of poetry, across a range of political and aesthetic orientations. Indeed, Nealon asserts, capitalism is the material out of which poetry in English has been created over the last century. |
Contents
The Matter of Capital or Catastrophe and Textuality | 1 |
Pound Auden and the Legacy of the Interwar Years | 36 |
2 John Ashberys Optional Apocalypse | 73 |
3 Language in Spicer and After | 107 |
Poetry in LateLate Capitalism | 140 |
Notes | 169 |
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Acknowledgments | 187 |
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