Poetry Makes You Happen
American Poetry from Modernism to the Social Movement
$123.54
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
Modernist poetry has long had a reputation for craft formalism and political conservatism that overshadows its radical legacies. Lukas Moe shows how midcentury US poets and poetics drew upon leftwing culture to pave the way for diversity and pluralism in contemporary poetry. Poets used modernist forms to write poems of individual dissent and systemic critique that resonated with the ambitious visions of social movements in postwar US society. Audre Lorde’s sense that poetry “makes you happen”…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781469694016 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1469694018 |
| Author: | Lukas Moe |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Imprint: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 155mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Lukas Moe weaves underread, out of print, and unpublished works into an intellectual and literary history where the aesthetic and artistic precepts of modernism are shown to generate legacies of leftist, ethnically diverse politics and culture in following generations.”—Kamran Javadizadeh, Villanova University
Lukas Moe
Lukas Moe is an independent scholar of twentieth-century poetry and poetics, modernism and radicalism, and social movement literature.
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