“No One Writes to the Writer”: César Vallejo´s Soviet Correspondence by Victoria Yu. Popova

“…Despite the irregular interaction, the Soviet episodes of the writer's work have become very important components of his creative biography, and his literary ties with Soviet Russia are a unique example of the cooperation of a Latin American poet with the literary institutions of the USSR in the late 1920s and early 1930s — at the stage of emergence and consolidation of contacts with writers of leftist views in Spain and Latin America. …”
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Creative writing, cosmopolitanism, and contemporary American literature by Cetkovski, J

“…The narrowing of American poetry and fiction from these formal perspectives corresponds to a narrowing of the typical institutional path of American poets and writers of fiction. A short preface sets out the argument and the structure of the thesis. …”

'Pour une poésie mineure': linguistic experimentation in the work of Dominique Fourcade, Olivier Cadiot and Christophe Tarkos by Sainsbury, D

“…<p>In a passage in <em>Mille plateaux</em>, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari refer to the 'expressions singulières' of the American poet E. E. Cummings (<em>'he danced his did ou they went their came'</em>), arguing that Cummings offers an example of how, in literature, the atypical stylistic and syntactic variations of an author push language towards its limit, extending it 'vers un en-deçà ou un au-delà de la langue' (125-6). …”

Ecstasy or justice? The sexual author and the law, 1855-1885 by Wolf, NR

“…The Sexual Author and the Law, 1855-1885," explores Symonds' work in the context of his epistolary relationship with the American poet Walt Whitman, whose influential 1860 edition of "Leaves of Grass," with its frank treatment of homoerotic themes, inspired a generation of British writers, feminists and activists, in addition to provoking Symonds himself into more direct, though textually veiled and coded, engagement with homoerotic themes. …”

Elegaic materialism: the poetry and art of Susan Howe by Barbour, S, Susan Barbour

“…<p>The American poet Susan Howe (1937-present) began her career as a visual artist, but owing to a dearth of information about her early collages it has been difficult to say anything substantive about how they might have shaped her poetic practice. …”

Difference and proliferation: race in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop = Diferença e proliferação: o conceito de raça na poesia de Elizabeth Bishop by Terry Caesar

“…The current paper deals with the whole imagination of race in the work of a major American poet. The very subject of race intersects with the question of national identity, also neglected in Bishop’s work, although not in the same way. …”
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A Comparative Criticism of the “Shadow” Archetype in the Poems of Forough Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plat by Zahra Khatami Kashani

“…Sylvia Plath is an american poet and writer who is one of the leading woman in american literature for singing  the confessional poem. …”
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Evolving to Science Poetry: Three Poems by Ernesto Cardenal by Cohen Jonathan

“…Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal (1925–2020) is one of the most important Latin American poets. He developed his “exteriorist” poetics in the 1950s, much influenced by Anglo-American poets, in particular Ezra Pound, to differentiate his poetry from the prevailing subjectivist verse in Latin America. …”
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THE FUNCTION OF POETRY IN THE MODERN WORLD: A CASE STUDY OF WALT WHITMAN AND AUDRE LORDE’S POEMS by Lauri Scheyer, Zanyar Kareem Abdul

“…Specifically, we will offer brief contrastive assessments of two landmark exemplars of American poets, Walt Whitman and Audre Lorde. These two figures demonstrate some of the varied ways of the American poetry tradition.  …”
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Travelling Nations, Travelling Cultures: Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell as Liminal Tourists by Martin Inhoff

“…This paper examines two American poets and raises the question of how their texts open “innovative sites of collaboration and contestation”, to quote from an early Bhabha essay. …”
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The Study of the Theme of Nature in Robert Frost’s Pastoral Poems by Qu Shuang

“…As one of the most celebrated and popular American poets in the 20th century, Robert Frost created a lot of poems that are frequently quoted and widely loved. …”
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Byron and Nineteenth-Century Literary Philhellenism in America by Maria Schoina

“…My discussion aims to demonstrate the American poets’ rich and diverse engagement with Byronic modes, hoping to bring a deeper understanding of the texts in question as well as of the historical frames surrounding them.…”
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Adam Ważyk, the New Sentence and the question of entropy by Paweł Kaczmarski

“…The second section of the article places the entropy-related tensions identified by Ważyk in the context of poetic debates of the 90’s between Fredric Jameson, a prominent Marxist critic, and the American poets identified as the LANGUAGE group.…”
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“Pain of Speaking”: Language and Environmental (In)justice in Ofelia Zepeda’s Where Clouds Are Formed by Miroslav Černý

“… Ofelia Zepeda, an enrolled member of the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation (formerly Papago), is one of the most acknowledged Native American poets of her generation. Zepeda’s creative writing can be characterized as eco-poetry, for it is deeply connected with the natural environment of the Tohono O’odham traditional tribal territory in the Sonoran Desert of the American Southwest. …”
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Translating Culture: Contemporary African American Poetry by Kristina Kočan Šalamon

“…The cultural elements, such as African American cuisine, attire and style in general, as well as spiritual and religious practices, often play a significant role for African American poets who are proclaiming their identity. Moreover, the paper presents the translation problems that emerge when attempting to transfer such a specific, even exotic, source culture into a target culture, like Slovene. …”
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Epic reduction: receptions of Homer and Virgil in modern American poetry by Platt, M

“…<p>The aim of this project is to account for the widespread reception of the epics of Homer and Virgil by American poets of the twentieth century. Since 1914, an unprecedented number of new poems interpreting the <em>Iliad, Odyssey</em> and <em>Aeneid</em> have appeared in the United States.…”

Apotheosis of Mortal Man: Stellar and Terrestrial Imagery in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry by Fahri Öz

“…The analysis of such images can provide us with clues about the elucidation of Thomas’s marginal yet indispensible place within English poetry since these images attest to the fact that he was not only influenced by English Romantic poets like John Keats but also Nineteenth-century American poets like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.…”
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Ghalib Dehlavi’s Ghazals Beyond the Orient by Neda Alizadeh Kashani

“…The study first provides a brief account of how the North American poets got familiarized with Persian poetry, particularly through the Transcendentalist movement and specifically through Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works in the nineteenth century. …”
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Problems in Translating Musical Elements in African American Poetry after 1950 by Kristina Kočan

“…Contemporary African American poets tend to ignore grammatical rules, use unusual typography on many occasions, include much of their cultural heritage in their poetry, and interweave musical elements into literary genres. …”
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Tre lettori di Pound nell’Italia di oggi: Agamben, Montesano, Magris by Della Marca, Manlio

“… Ezra Pound (1885-1972) is one of the most influential and most controversial American poets of the twentieth century. His multidimensional career and uncompromising life encapsulate crucial questions about the role of the writer in society: What is the relationship between experimental art and extreme political views? …”
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