ANN KENISTON poet | critic | essayist
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CRITICAL BOOKS 



​Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture, and Economics. Palgrave, 2023. 

Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry. Contemporary North American Poetry Series. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2015. Recipient of Robert Penn Warren - Cleanth Brooks Award (2016). Reviewed in Twentieth-Century Literature, Modern Philology, American Literature.
 
Overheard Voices:  Subjectivity and Address in Postmodern American Poetry.  New York:  Routledge Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series, 2006. Paper 2015.

EDITED VOLUMES

“Ethics after Poststructuralism: A Reader.” Coedited with Brendan Johnston and Lee Olsen. McFarland Books, 2020.
 
The News from Poems: New Essays on 21st-Century American Engaged Poetry. Essay collection coedited with Jeffrey Gray, including twelve essays plus a cowritten introduction. U. of Michigan P, 2016.

The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st-Century Anthology. Anthology coedited with Jeffrey Gray, including a cowritten introduction, poems by forty-nine poets, and poets' statements. McFarland, 2012.

Literature after 9/11. Essay collection coedited with Jeanne Follansbee, including fifteen essays plus a cowritten introduction and afterward. Routledge, 2008.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

 
“Vernacular (Almost-)Modernism: Maynard Dixon’s Western Poetry.” Sagebrush and Solitude: Maynard Dixon in Nevada and the Eastern Sierra. Rizzoli, 2024: 274-283
 
 “‘a blip on their]// radar’: Surveillance and (Post-)Post-trauma in Contemporary American War Poetry. Paideuma. Symposium on Literature and War. 47 (2022): 263-78. 

"Women of Property." ASAP/J. Review Essay. June 2020.

“Economies of Scale: Contemporary Poetry and the Marketplace.” Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Craig Svonkin and Steven Axelrod, 2023. 323-38.
 
“Recipient Unknown: Terrorism and Instabilities of Voice in Post-9/11 American Poetry.” Terrorism and Literature. Ed. Peter Herman. Cambridge UP, 2018. 469-85
 
“Echo Revisions: Repetition, Politics, and the Problem of Value in Contemporary Engaged Poetry.” The News from Poems: New Essays on 21st-century American Engaged Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Gray and Ann Keniston. U. of Michigan P, 2016.
 
“Traumatic Brain Injury in Post-9/11 American Fiction.” Post45 Contemporaries Series. October 2015.
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“The Contemporary American Ode.” A Companion to Poetic Genre. Ed. Erik Martiny.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. 64-76.
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