Cold War Poetry Sarah Matthews and a small number of

and a small number of tricky words (frequently used words that are not fully decodable at this stage)

easy-to-understand guide for practitioners

global circulation

and considers the politics of responsibility that it brings

and non-mathematical fashion

Cold War Poetry Sarah Matthews and a small number ofMainstream American poetry of the 1950s has long been dismissed as deliberately indifferent to its cultural circumstances. In this penetrating study, Edward Brunner breaks the placid surface of the hollow decade to reveal a poetry sharply responsive to issues of its time. Cold War Poetry considers the fifties poem as part of a dual cultural project: as proof of the competency of the newly professionalized poet and as a user friendly way of initiating