The Edge of Modernism American Poetry and the Traumatic Past

• Main Author: Kalaidjian, Walter (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2006
• Subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets
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In The Edge of Modernism, Walter Kalaidjian explores American poetry on genocide, the Holocaust, and total war as well as on postwar social antagonisms, racial oppression, and domestic violence. By asking what it means for traumatic memory to have agency in the American verse tradition, Kalaidjian c...