The Open Boat and the Shipwreck of the Singular: American Poetry and the Democratic Ideal by Elizabeth Willis

“…A poet investigates an essential contradiction within American poetry’s counter-tradition. How is it that vanguard works of poetry and prose repeatedly re-enact foundational narratives of Americanness ? …”
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World Literature and Mythology: Guarantees of Freedom of Man and Nation in Sigitas Geda’s Poetry by Karolina Bagdonė

“…The Lithuanian poet adopted and applied it in his work by creating a mythological foundation as a unifying universal, a synthesis of Lithuanian and various national cultures. …”
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A poética cantada: investigação das habilidades do repentista nordestino by João Miguel Manzolillo Sautchuk

“…While improvising, the singer guides himself by these esthetic models, among which I highlight as the main practical foundation of improvised poetry the poetic rhythm incorporated by these poets.…”
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“This Land Is Your Land”: A Note on America as a Nation of “Varied Carols” by Heinrich Detering

“…Against this background of listening to the countless different voices, his equally famous poem ‘America’ reads like a personal and individual answer: “Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, / All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, / Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich”. Whitman’s poetry lays out the foundation for a specifically American tradition of song poetry that focuses on political equality and social justice as collective human rights and the free development of every person’s individuality at the same time. …”
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Castil-Blaze troubadour by Séverine Féron

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On Love and the Canon: H.D., Robert Duncan, and “Venice-Venus” by Lara Vetter

“…Book offers an alternative literary history of modernism and contemporary poetry that moves H.D., Pound, Lawrence and Williams to its center, and that thus positions poets influenced by these four (including himself) as foundational to the post-WWII era. …”
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« Les Arcadies de Sir Philip Sidney et de Tom Stoppard » by Anne-Valérie Dulac

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Bouées, portulans et cartes en TO : L’idéal cartographique dans les Maximus Poems de Charles Olson. by Vincent Bucher

“…For Charles Olson, places represent an ideal foundation for his poetry in so far as they free it from ego, history and nature by virtue of their being the compound of social and environmental forces. …”
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Raising a thousand Tutu voices: Reflections on the Truth to Power exhibition

“…The example and the courage of the poet and journalist, Antjie Krog, who covered the TRC hearings and who is still speaking poetry to power as a public intellectual, are used to reflect on the author’s own culpability and that of other White Afrikaans-speaking South Africans and their involvement in the TRC process. …”
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Yoruba Festival and the Dramatist: Satire as Spine in Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests by Olusegun i Olu-Osayomi

“…The paper explains further that the festival's motif and cultural celebration built into the structure of the selected play and properly harnessed raw material for his poetry. The methodology is analytical and complemented by hermeneutics theory. …”
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FILOSOFINĖS POETIKOS PARADIGMA by Tomas Kačerauskas

“…Philosophical poetics is based on the presumption that poetry and philosophy stand next to each other. The common foundation of the both is metaphor. …”
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Owen and Sassoon Reconsidered by Cristina Pividori

“…I claim that the First World War has served as a foundational narrative that has been reinterpreted to address contemporary concerns and sensibilities and that the interaction between contemporary and World War One poetry reveals not only the enduring impact of transgenerational trauma and cultural memory on the disruption and transformation of individual and collective identities, but also the idea that the interpretation of conflict through post-lenses transcends specific historical backgrounds. …”
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After great pain a formal feeling comes. Quelques notes sur la formalisation lyrique du trauma by Antoine Cazé

“…In this article, I first analyze the primordial link between lyric poetry and trauma, existing from the Greek origins of the genre. …”
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