The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism

This book examines Donald M. Allen’s crucially influential poetry anthology  The New American Poetry, 1945 – 1960  from the perspectives of American Cold War nationalism and literary transnationalism, considering how the anthology expresses and challenges Cold War norms, claiming post-war Anglophone poetic innovation for the United States and reflecting the conservative American society of the 1950s. Examining the crossroads of politics, social life, and literature during the Cold War,