Book Description
Favorite American poets--including Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson, and Poe--are represented in this collection that is being published just in time for National Poetry Month.
Author : Leslie Pockell
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0312369808
Favorite American poets--including Longfellow, Whitman, Dickinson, and Poe--are represented in this collection that is being published just in time for National Poetry Month.
Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1402221118
Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
Author : The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486110265
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.
Author :
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Collects one hundred poems from the past century that reflect modern culture, including works by William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Author : Joseph Parisi
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Inspired and inspirational, worldly wise, deeply felt, and often delightfully funny, here in one compact volume are 100 of the greatest poems written in English over the last century, memorable masterpieces that everyone should know and enjoy.
Author : William Stafford
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 14,84 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555973256
"In our time there has been no poet who revived human hearts and spirits more convincingly than William Stafford." —Naomi Shihab Nye Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. —from "Ask Me" In celebration of the poet's centennial, Ask Me collects one hundred of William Stafford's essential poems. As a conscientious objector during World War II, while assigned to Civilian Public Service camps Stafford began his daily writing practice, a lifelong early-morning ritual of witness. His poetry reveals the consequences of violence, the daily necessity of moral decisions, and the bounty of art. Selected and with a note by Kim Stafford, Ask Me presents the best from a profound and original American voice.
Author : John Raymond Howard
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1905
Category : American poetry
ISBN :
Author : John Raymond Howard
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781330879078
Excerpt from One Hundred Best American Poems This grouping of American poems had its rise in the welcome accorded to a little volume entitled "The Hundred Best English Poems," issued by the same publishers. To select one hundred examples from the best work by our American poets, excluding all living authors, and avoiding an undue proportion of pieces by the few acknowledged to be preeminent, has been a puzzling although a pleasant task. Of course, no two editors would select the same hundred pieces from the sixty-four poets here represented. Any one familiar with our poetical literature will miss here certain favorites, and perhaps would criticize some of the selections. This is inevitable. It is not always the most finished art which expresses feelings and "thoughts that shall live within the general mind." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : The Academy of American Poets
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 152488183X
A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems that invites us to celebrate poetry’s power to capture the truths that really matter. 100 Poems That Matter examines universal themes of love, loss, and the experiences that define us. At turns moving, thoughtful, and thrilling, 100 Poems That Matter feeds into the connections we all have to poetry and encourages us to bring a deeper sense of honesty into our lives. Featured poets include Emily Brontë, E.E. Cummings, Kahlil Gibran, Audre Lorde, and Emily Dickinson.
Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374720118
Selected poems from a Nobel laureate In 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist." It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections.