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Post- World War II
American poetry broke free from constraints such as rhyme and meter and flung itself heart-fist -
Contemporary American poetry
It has been in the midst of a kaleidoscopic renaissance in the half of 20th century -
Poetry of self
Toward direct address or monologue, however undercut spiritual certainty by referring all meaning back to language. -
Poetry of voice
At its furthest extreme, poetry of self obliterates the self if it lacks a counterbalancing sensibility -
Poetry of place
Memories of surfing -
Poetry of family
Matrix of belonging to environment -
Poetry of beautiful
Modern life in all its suffering and confusion -
Poetry of spirit
The deepest relationship is that between the individual and the timeless essence beyond thought linked with -
Poetry of nature
Philip Freneau made a point of celebrating flora and fauna native to the focused on America’s relation to nature in the 19th and 20th centuries -
Poetry of wit
Including humor, a sense of the incongruous, and flight of fancy, lies close to world. It located in everyday life raised to a humorous, surrealistic or allegorical pitch; use colloquial language -
Poetry of history
It is inspired by history, is in some way the most difficult and ambitious of all -
Poetry of the world
The poetic spectrum lies poetry of the world, presided over by the spirit of Elizabeth Bishop, seems anti poetical. -
Cyber-poetry
Is a new poetry, begin in early 1900n include self-reflexive critiques of technologically driven work; computer icons, graphics, and hypertext links festoon vast webs of relationships. -
Charles Wright
Raised in Tennessee, moments of spiritual insight rescue -
Mary Oliver
Accessible poet, he evokes plants and animals with visionary intensity; was born in Ohio but has lived in New England for years -
Robert Pinsky
Poet laureate from 1997-2000, links colloquial speech to technical virtuosity; his poems extend into historical and national contexts. -
Billy Collins
He uses everyday language to record the myriad details of everyday life, freely mixing quotidian events, he like a final modulation in music. -
Louise Glück
One of the most impressive poets; born in New York City, she studied with the poets Leonie Adams and Stanley Kunitz -
Yusef Komunyakaa
He was a reporter got the military newspaper Southern Cross, and wrote poems during the war; he has spoken of the need for poetry to afford a series of surprises -
Jorie Graham
Born in New York, she grew up in Italy and studied at the Sorbonne in France; and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she later taught. -
Mark Doty
Has been publishing supple, beautiful poetic meditations on art and relationships -
Jane Hirshfield
Makes almost no explicit reference to Buddhism in her poems, yet they breathe the spirit of her many years of Zen meditation and her translations from the ancient court poetry -
Li-Young Lee
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia; lived in a refugee and later found a refugee in USA