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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: George B. HandleyPublisher: University of Georgia Press Imprint: University of Georgia Press Edition: Annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.776kg ISBN: 9780820328645ISBN 10: 0820328642 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 30 July 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock ![]() The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsJoining Whitman with Neruda and Walcott under environmentalist scrutiny gives this book new reach and point. Handley aptly clarifies the poets' take on America's so-called and half-wasted New World. Unless we credit their human imaginative presence, no amount of science or policy will pull us through.--John Felstiner author of Translating Neruda New World Poetics will be viewed as a foundational work because of its many, and remarkably perceptive, links among poetry, natural history, and political history. Handley's scholarship is impressive throughout, as he explores both North American and Latin American conceptions of the New World and illuminates the origins, potential, and limitations of American Studies as a discipline. This exciting book left me especially eager to voyage further into the literature of South America for myself. --John Elder, author of Reading the Mountains of Home New World Poetics will be viewed as a foundational work because of its many, and remarkably perceptive, links among poetry, natural history, and political history. Handley's scholarship is impressive throughout, as he explores both North American and Latin American conceptions of the New World and illuminates the origins, potential, and limitations of American Studies as a discipline. This exciting book left me especially eager to voyage further into the literature of South America for myself. --John Elder author of Reading the Mountains of Home Joining Whitman with Neruda and Walcott under environmentalist scrutiny gives this book new reach and point. Handley aptly clarifies the poets' take on America's so-called and half-wasted New World. Unless we credit their human imaginative presence, no amount of science or policy will pull us through. --John Felstiner author of Translating Neruda Author Information"George B. Handley is a professor of humanities at Brigham Young University. His books include ""Postslavery Literatures in the Americas"" and ""Caribbean Literature and the Environment.""" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |