TY - BOOK AU - Hart,Matthew TI - Nations of nothing but poetry: modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing T2 - Modernist literature & culture SN - 9780195390339 (alk. paper) U1 - 821.9109114 H M N 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - English poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - American poetry KW - Poetry, Modern KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - English-speaking countries KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - Transnationalism in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-231) and index; Vernacular discourse from major to minor -- The impossibility of synthetic Scots; or, Hugh MacDiarmid's nationalist internationalism -- A dialect written in the spelling of the capital: Basil Bunting goes home -- Tradition and the postcolonial talent: T. S. Eliot versus E. K. Brathwaite -- Transnational anthems and the ship of state: Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson and the politics of afro-modernism -- Epilogue denationalizing Mina Loy ER -