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It is time to take a closer look at poets who inherited the civic tradition in post-World War II American poetry. What did the generation of poets born in the 1960s and 1970s learn from Pinsky, Rich, Baraka, and their peers? How do today’s younger poets envision their role as public intellectuals and what steps do they take to share their ideas with others using the verbal and formal resources of poetry? Specifically, how did these younger poets respond to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent US military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq—momentous developments on national as well as global scale for which the beginning of the twenty-first century will surely be known?
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Gwiazda, P.K. (2014). Ether: Juliana Spahr, Ben Lerner, Lisa Jarnot. In: US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979–2012. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137466273_5
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