A Transnational Poetics - Paperbackby Jahan Ramazani (Author) Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous "stubbornly national," in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts," according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean straddling energies of the poetic imagination in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British