TY - BOOK AU - Newcomb,John Timberman ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - How did poetry survive?: the making of modern American verse AV - PS310.M57 N488 2012 U1 - 811/.5209 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - United States KW - Poetry KW - Authorship KW - Psychological aspects KW - Poets, American KW - Psychology KW - Social change in literature KW - Social conflict in literature KW - City and town life in literature KW - Technology in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index; Introduction. A modernism of the city -- Inventing the new verse -- American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912 -- Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism -- Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses -- There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result" -- Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War -- Keys to the city -- Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape -- Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems -- Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3414196 ER -