Handbook of American Poetry

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Handbook of American Poetry is written by Sabine Sielke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110595079 (ISBN 10) and 9783110595079 (ISBN 13).

This handbook offers scholars an overview of the state of research and students a sense of how American poetry – from its first forms evolving in the 17th-century settler colonies to its current digital modes – has addressed issues and experiences central to human consciousness and to political life over five centuries of cultural practice. At the same time, it aims to show how poetry, philosophy, and theory have always been involved in productive dialogues.