Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular WritingModernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language to re imagine the relations between people, their languages, and the communities in which they live? Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these questions