XVI * American Literature: The Twentieth Century

This chapter has six sections: 1. Poetry; 2. Fiction 1900–1945; 3. Fiction since 1945; 4. Drama; 5. African American Writing; 6. Native, Asian American, Latino/a and General Ethnic Writing. Section 1 is by Lacy Rumsey; section 2 is by Elizabeth Nolan and James M. Decker; section 3 is by Michael Boyd; section 4 is by Amy M. Flaxman; section 5 is by Alan Rice and Stella Bolaki; section 6 is by Sarah Robertson In a year that saw the publication of relatively few new sources of primary material, UCalP continued to issue useful editions of postwar poets. Robert Creeley's Collected Poems 1975–2005 brought the poet's oeuvre to an attractive if melancholy close, covering collections from Hello to the posthumously published On Earth , which also appeared this year. The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser , edited by Miriam Nichols, constituted an expansion of an earlier collection bearing the same title (Couch House [1993]); the companion volume, The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser , provides critical writing on as well as by the poet, and provides a useful introduction to the work of this atypical figure of the Berkeley, and subsequently Canadian, scenes. Elsewhere, Elisabeth A. Frost and Cynthia Hogue edited Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews . Featuring fifteen poets, including Alice Fulton, Harryette Mullen, Alice Notley, and Barbara Guest, the volume constitutes an attractive way into their work, providing variety and a certain degree of depth, though in most cases one would have preferred more pages of poems and fewer of interview. The year's notable volume of correspondence was Blount, ed., The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie , which is primarily, but not exclusively, of biographical interest; the rich stock of letters written during the poet's courtship contain interesting asides—on the poet's lack of religious feeling, on poetry, on quotation, on New York—and allow readers to encounter, as Blount notes, a version of ‘Wallace’ that persists throughout the poet's subsequent self-inventions.

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