Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1439181519
The latest installment of the yearly anthology of contemporary American poetry that has achieved brand-name status in the literary world.
Author : Rita Dove
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 24,82 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 : Jennifer Egan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547819226
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0195123735
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374533180
Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1982186704
Matthew Zapruder picks the poems for the 2022 edition of The Best American Poetry, “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a selection of the year’s most brilliant, striking, and innovative poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. For The Best American Poetry 2022 guest editor Matthew Zapruder, whose own poems are “for everyone, everywhere...democratic in [their] insights and feelings” (NPR), has selected the seventy-five new poems that represent American poetry today at its most dynamic. Chosen from print and online magazines, from the popular to the little-known, the selection is sure to capture the attention of both Best American Poetry loyalists and newcomers to the series. The series and guest editors contribute valuable introductory essays that illuminate the current state of American poetry.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 198210659X
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume in the series presents some of the year’s most remarkable poems and poets. Now, the 2020 edition is guest edited by Utah’s Poet Laureate Paisely Rekdal, called “a poet of observation and history...[who] revels in detail but writes vast, moral poems that help us live in a world of contraries” by the Los Angeles Times. In The Best American Poetry 2020, she has selected a fascinating array of work that speaks eloquently to the “contraries” of our present moment in time.
Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195122701
Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.
Author : The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 39,68 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 : Ed Ochester
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2007-04-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0822978180
American Poetry Now is a comprehensive collection of the best work from the renowned Pitt Poetry Series. Since its inception in 1967, the series has been a vehicle for America's finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Bob Hicok, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser, Larry Levis, Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Virgil Suarez, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, Dean Young, and many others. Throughout its forty-year history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style. American Poetry Now is a true representation of contemporary American poetry. Ed Ochester, series editor for nearly thirty years, has assembled a quintessential selection-along with biographies and photos, an enlightening introduction, and a suggested list for further reading, all in a highly accessible format. American Poetry Now is a sweeping anthology that will delight poetry fans, students, teachers, and general readers alike.
