Download or read book Handbook of American Poetry written by Sabine Sielke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2025-01-27 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.