{"product_id":"the-enclosures-of-free-verse-racializing-poetic-form-in-the-modernist-era-9781469693057","title":"The Enclosures of Free Verse: Racializing Poetic Form in the Modernist Era","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called \"traditional\" poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from the fetters of old forms. In this version of literary history, free verse saved poetry from cultural irrelevance and marked a broadly oppositional politics. This book tells a different story--and offers a radically new account of the rise of free verse poetry in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1910s, white academics, editors, and critics popularized free verse by arguing that it was the formal expression of a white American race. For Black and Indigenous authors, free verse did not reliably function as a break or an opening; it was instead a form of enclosure and used to shore up racial hierarchies. The story of the racialization of free verse has been consistently edited out of accounts of modernism--especially those that focus on how free verse was promoted in storied little magazines such as \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOthers\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eThe Enclosures of Free Verse\u003c\/i\u003e, Erin Joyce Kappeler returns to those magazines and their associated anthologies to show that free verse was a racial formation of whiteness and to explore how Black and Indigenous poets navigated this racialization of poetic form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erin Joyce Kappeler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469693057","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45486758625417,"sku":"9781469693057","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_c0763e48-64c6-4ee0-9f98-1f7baeace74e.jpg?v=1775543194","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-enclosures-of-free-verse-racializing-poetic-form-in-the-modernist-era-9781469693057","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}