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Keith Tuma's Fishing by Obstinate Isles explores the complex relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging reductive American views of a British poetry dominated by anti-modernism while discussing the role of rhetorics of national identity on both sides of the Atlantic in the persistence of these views.Neither a full history nor a map of modern and contemporary British poetry, Fishing by Obstinate Isles is rather a series of essayistic interventions. By examining ideas of "an America in England and an England in America", and in pursuit of a transatlantic perspective that respects local and national differences while avoiding parochialism, Tuma investigates several pivotal moments in the history of the British-American interface in poetry: the prewar movement in the early 1930s and American enthusiasm for a British modernist poetry following in the wake of Pound and Eliot; the New Poets of England and America in the 1950s, when the continuities between the poetries of the two nations seemed considerable; and the late 1970s, when much of British poetry was thought to be either inscrutable or irrelevant to Americans.Devoting its most extensive commentary to an eclectic collection of British modernist and postmodernist poets, including Joseph Gordon Macleod, Basil Bunting, Mina Loy, Roy Fisher, and Peter Riley, Fishing by Obstinate Isles attacks the relegation of British poetry to the zones of the quaint and antiquarian, making a compelling case for renewed engagements.