Author: Louise Gluck
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780020698463
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Collection of seventy-five poems chosen from literary journals and magazines representing a wide variety of styles found in American poetry.
The Best American Poetry, 1993
Author: Louise Gluck
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780020698463
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Collection of seventy-five poems chosen from literary journals and magazines representing a wide variety of styles found in American poetry.
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780020698463
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Collection of seventy-five poems chosen from literary journals and magazines representing a wide variety of styles found in American poetry.
American Poetry Since 1950
Author: Eliot Weinberger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
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.
The Best of the Best American Poetry
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106061
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439106061
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Meditations in an Emergency
Author: Frank O'Hara
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1957.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 1957.
The Best American Poetry, 1993
Author: Louise Gluck
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780684195094
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780684195094
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.
The Triumph of Achilles
Author: Louise Glück
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A collection by the Pulitzer Prize winner considers reality, perception, aging, religion, friendship, love, myths, dreams, partings, nature, grief, and hope.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A collection by the Pulitzer Prize winner considers reality, perception, aging, religion, friendship, love, myths, dreams, partings, nature, grief, and hope.
The Best American Poetry 2008
Author: Charles Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743299752
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
An anthology of poetry selected as the best published in magazines and periodicals in 2007 by editor Charles Wright, featuring seventy-five poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Alex Lemon, and others.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743299752
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
An anthology of poetry selected as the best published in magazines and periodicals in 2007 by editor Charles Wright, featuring seventy-five poems by Carolyn Forche, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Alex Lemon, and others.
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #66)
Author: John Hollander
Publisher: Library of America: The Americ
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Freneau to Whitman.
Publisher: Library of America: The Americ
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
Freneau to Whitman.
The Best American Poetry, 1993
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780780736993
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780780736993
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Collected Poems of John Updike, 1953-1993
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307961974
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
“The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux.” Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, “the thread backside of my life’s fading tapestry.” An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiates upon a number of fine points. Nature—tenderly intricate, ruthlessly impervious—is a constant and ambiguous presence in these poems, along with the social observation one would expect in a novelist. No occasion is too modest or too daily to excite metaphysical wonder, or to provoke a lyrical ingenuity of language. Yet even the wittiest of the poems are rooted to the ground of experience and fact. “Seven Odes to Seven Natural Processes” attempt to explicate the physical world with a directness seldom attempted in poetry. Several longer poems—“Leaving Church Early,” “Midpoint”—use autobiography to proclaim the basic strangeness of existence.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307961974
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
“The idea of verse, of poetry, has always, during forty years spent working primarily in prose, stood at my elbow, as a standing invitation to the highest kind of verbal exercise—the most satisfying, the most archaic, the most elusive of critical control. In hotel rooms and airplanes, on beaches and Sundays, at junctures of personal happiness or its opposite, poetry has comforted me with its hope of permanence, its packaging of flux.” Thus John Updike writes in introducing his Collected Poems. The earliest poems here date from 1953, when Updike was twenty-one, and the last were written after he turned sixty. Almost all of those published in his five previous collections are included, with some revisions. Arranged in chronological order, the poems constitute, as he says, “the thread backside of my life’s fading tapestry.” An ample set of notes at the back of the book discusses some of the hidden threads, and expatiates upon a number of fine points. Nature—tenderly intricate, ruthlessly impervious—is a constant and ambiguous presence in these poems, along with the social observation one would expect in a novelist. No occasion is too modest or too daily to excite metaphysical wonder, or to provoke a lyrical ingenuity of language. Yet even the wittiest of the poems are rooted to the ground of experience and fact. “Seven Odes to Seven Natural Processes” attempt to explicate the physical world with a directness seldom attempted in poetry. Several longer poems—“Leaving Church Early,” “Midpoint”—use autobiography to proclaim the basic strangeness of existence.