Book Description
An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.
Author : Louise Gluck
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780684195094
An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.
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Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780780736993
Author : David Lehman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 1993
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ISBN :
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1439106061
Every year since 1988 a major poet has selected seventy-five poems for publication in The Best American Poetry. The series has quickly grown in both sales and prestige, as poetry itself has seen a remarkable resurgence in popularity and vitality, fueled by established poets at the peak of their powers and a new generation of daring voices. As we approach the millennium, now is the opportune moment to take stock of american poetry and choose the work that will stand the test of time. Harold Bloom, a commanding presence on the American literary state, has read all 750 poems in the series and has picked the "best of the best." He precedes his selections with a compelling and highly provocative essay on the state of American letters, in which he fiercely champions the endangered realm of the aesthetic over the politically correct. Diverse in style, method, and metaphor, the seventy-five poems Bloom has chosen go a long way toward defining a contemporary canon of American poetry. This exciting volume reflects not only the taste of the current editor, but the predilections of the all-star list of poets who have contributed their time and intellect to make this series what is today: a "valuable, invaluable, supervaluable" (Beloit Poetry Journal) record of an ever-changing, always exciting art.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2000-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743200330
Former Poet Laureate Dove has chosen the best poems of the year from a wide range of literary magazines and journals, presenting works by W.S. Merwin, Lucille Clifton, Susan Mitchell, John Ashbery, and others. The poets comment about their work. Lehman writes the Foreword.
Author : Eliot Weinberger
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Since Whitman and Dickinson, most of the major poetry in the United States has been written against the literary establishments and prevailing canons of taste, and often far from the cultural centers. This is the first anthology in many years to gather the work from this continuing tradition of innovators and outsiders, presenting poets and poems that are still excluded from the academic collections. Opening with the last poems of the Modernist masters Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and H.D., the book follows through four generations of writers who have been the primary figures of the new poetries and poetics since 1950. With a historical afterword, complete bibliographies, and generous selections from each of the thirty-five poets, this anthology is the only available introduction to the poets connected with such groups and movements as the Objectivists, the Beats, Black Mountain, the New York School, the San Francisco Renaissance, and ethnopoetics. American Poetry Since 1950 is a new map of the territory, an array of known and unknown contemporary classics. It is full of strange texts and startling procedures, histories and natural histories, high lyricism and extended meditations - extraordinary works that challenge our notions of what a poem ought to be.
Author : John Hollander
Publisher : Library of America: The Americ
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1993-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Freneau to Whitman.
Author : Michael Collier
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 1999
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780874519501
A galaxy of writers epitomizes the state of American poetry at the century's close.
Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2011
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0143106430
An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.
Author : Denise Duhamel
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 1999-04-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780809322596
The Star-Spangled Banner, Denise Duhamel's sixth book of poems, is about falling in love, American-style, with someone who is not American. In the title poem, a small American girl mishears the first line of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as "José, can you see?", which leads her to imagine a foreign lover of an American woman dressed in a star-spangled gown. The misunderstandings caused by language recur throughout the book: contemplating what "yes" means in different cultures; watching Nickelodeon's "Nick at Nite" with a husband who grew up in the Philippines and never saw The Patty Duke Show; misreading another poet's title "The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke" as "The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope" and concluding that "Pepsi is all for premarital sex. / The Pope won't stain your teeth." Misunderstandings also abound as characters mingle with others from different classes. In "Cockroaches," a father-in-law refers to budget-minded American college students backpacking in Europe as cockroaches, not realizing his daughter-in-law was once, not so long ago, such a student/roach herself. With welcome levity and refreshing irreverence, The Star-Spangled Banner addresses issues of ethnicity, class, and gender in America.