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Best American Poetry 2017 (The Best American Poetry series)
Edited by Pulitzer Prize-winner and nineteenth US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, The Best American Poetry 2017 brings together the most notable poems of the year in the series that offers “a vivid snapshot of what a distinguished poet finds exciting, fresh, and memorable” (Robert Pinsky).Librarian of Congress James Billington says Natasha Trethewey “consistently and dramatically expanded the power” of the role of US Poet Laureate, holding office hours with the public, traveling the country, and reaching millions through her innovative PBS NewsHour segment “Where Poetry Lives.” Marilyn Nelson says “the wide scope of Trethewey’s interests and her adept handling of form have created an opus of classics both elegant and necessary.” With her selections and introductory essay... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 1501127756
- ASIN: 1501127756
- ISBN: 1501127756
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets include:Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert PinskyMark StrandDenise LevertovRichard WilburMay SwensonMichael PalmerMark DotyYusef Komunyakaa Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 1400030935
- ASIN: 1400030935
- ISBN: 1400030935
- Brand: McClatchy, J. D. (EDT)
- Manufacturer: Vintage
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Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide
Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American stage more than 70 years ago. But aside from a few notable exceptions, gay artists of earlier generations felt compelled to avoid sexual candor in their writings. Conversely, most contemporary gay poets and playwrights are free from such constraints and have created a remarkable body of work. This reference is a guide to their creative achievements. Alphabetically arranged entries present 62 contemporary gay American poets and dramatists.While the majority of included writers are younger artists who came of age in the post-Stonewall U.S., some are older authors whose work has continued or persi... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 0313322325
- ASIN: 0313322325
- ISBN: 0313322325
- Manufacturer: Greenwood
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Best of the Best American Poetry: 25th Anniversary Edition (The Best of the Best)
Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American PoetryThis special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major American poet acting as guest editor—from John Ashbery in 1988 to Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets as Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Louise Glück, Adrienne Rich, Billy Collins, Heather McHugh, and Kevin Young. Out of the 1,875 poems that have appeared in The Best American Poetry, here are 100 that Robert Pinsky, the distingu... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 1451658885
- ASIN: 1451658885
- ISBN: 9781451658880
- Brand: Scribner Book Company
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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The Poet X
Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award!Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishing New York Times-bestselling novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet, about an Afro-Latina heroine who tells her story with blazing words and powerful truth. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class n... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 0062662805
- ASIN: 0062662805
- ISBN: 0062662805
- Manufacturer: HarperTeen
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This ... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 0399563245
- ASIN: 0399563245
- ISBN: 0399563245
- Manufacturer: Penguin Press
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Best American Poetry 2018 (The Best American Poetry series)
The 2018 edition of the Best American Poetry—“a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title” (Chicago Tribune)—collects the most significant poems of the year, chosen by Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia.The guest editor for 2018, Dana Gioia, has an unconventional poetic background. Gioia has published five volumes of poetry, served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and currently sits as the Poet Laureate of California, but he is also a graduate of Stanford Business School and was once a Vice President at General Foods. He has studied opera and is a published librettist, in addition to his prolific work in critical essay writing and editing literary anthologies. Having lived several lives, Gioia brings an insightful, varied, eclectic eye to thi... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 1501127802
- ASIN: 1501127802
- ISBN: 1501127802
- Brand: Scribner
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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The Best American Poetry 2015 (The Best American Poetry series)
The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication.Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become a mainstay for the direction and spirit of American poetry. Each volume in the series presents the year’s most extraordinary new poems and writers. Guest editor Sherman Alexie’s picks for The Best American Poetry 2015 highlight the depth and breadth of the American experience. Culled from electronic and print journals, the poems showcase some of our leading luminaries—Amy Gerstler, Terrance Hayes, Ron Padgett, Jane Hirshfield—and introduce a number of outstanding younger poets taking their place in the limeli... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 1476708207
- ASIN: 1476708207
- ISBN: 1476708207
- Manufacturer: Scribner
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As th... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 1401308589
- ASIN: 1401308589
- ISBN: 9781401308582
- Brand: Hyperion
- Manufacturer: Hachette Books
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Citizen: An American Lyric
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry ** Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award *ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . .A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters ar... [Read More] Best Contemporary American Poets
- ASIN: 1555976905
- ASIN: 1555976905
- ISBN: 1555976905
- Brand: Graywolf Press
- Manufacturer: Graywolf Press
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New American Best Friend
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and Best Contemporary American Poets One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and
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W. H. Auden - Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristoc - Famous Quotes Laminated POSTER PRINT 24X20.
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What Will Suffice : Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry
What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry Best Contemporary American Poets What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry (Paperback)
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More Stories We Tell : The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women
The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few). We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from Best Contemporary American Poets The second collection drawn together by editor Wendy Martin, these twenty-four exquisite examples of contemporary writing feature stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and Lorrie Moore (to name a few).We Are the Stories We Tell is also available from
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London Is the Best City in America - eBook
The first novel from the acclaimed author of Eight Hundred Grapes and Hello SunshineEmmy Everett is reluctantly heading home to New York for her brother Josh’s wedding. She has spent the last three years in a fishing town in Rhode Island and, having little to show for it, she doesn’t particularly want to answer the questions she is sure to face about her (ex)-fiance, her (questionable) career choices, her (unknown) future. But she is still shocked when her typically resolute brother Josh confesses he is having doubts about his imminent marriage – and he asks Emmy the hardest question of all: what do Best Contemporary American Poets London Is the Best City in America - eBook
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First American Poetry Disc, Volume II: Contemporary American Poetry
Sander Zulauf, June 10, 1987: Volume II of the First American Poetry Disc: Contemporary American Poetry, presents 12 distinguished contemporary poets whose work is truly representative of the rang... Poem,Poet,Poetry,Allen Ginsberg,James Wright,Ishmael Reed,County College of Morris,CCM,Morris Cou...
Miracle's Top five ; Great American Poets
Great American Poets of eternal fame are Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Edgar Alan Poe, E E Cummings and Emily Dickinson. The other great American Authors will be covered in other list. Robert Frost,abha sharma,Emily Dickenson,English Literature,E E Cummings,Amerian Literature,engli...
My Top 5 Favourite Modern Poets
An introduction to Ancient Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSU3aZKLOc0 Poets: Michael Rosen Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelRosenYes Poems on website: http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/poe... booktube
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