S. Smith, Poetry & Displacement

SMITH, Stan, Poetry & Displacement, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (Poetry &...), 2007, 256 p.


RÉSUMÉ

The last one hundred years have been an era of unprecedented displacements in many senses, opening with the accelerating drift of rural populations into the great metropolises of successive empires and the diasporas that forged the modern United States and any number of smaller nations. These processes almost inevitably fostered a poetry of exile and expatriation intimately bound up with the experience of modernity and the culture of modernism, culminating, in the postcolonial era, with the globalization of displacement as the determining condition of postmodernity. Written by a leading poetry critic, Poetry & Displacement explores this phenomenon and will be required reading for scholars of contemporary poetry.