| Description |
vii, 419 pages ; 25 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index. |
| Contents |
Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery (1981) -- tito madera smith / Tato Laviera (1981) -- The Ride / Richard Wilbur (1982) -- my dream about the second coming / Lucille Clifton (1982 / 1987) -- Possession / Carla Harryman (1982) -- Songs & sonnets / John Hollander (1983) -- More music / Carl Dennis (1984 / 1985) -- Saxophone / Liam Rector (1984) -- Incantation / Czesław Miłosz, trans. Robert Pinsky and Czesław Miłosz (1984) -- Shoe from the waves / Robert Grenier (1984) -- Lightnin' blues / Rita Dove (1986) -- Target / A.R. Ammons (1987) -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa (1987 / 1988) -- Hamatawk / Diane Glancy (1988 / 1991) -- Domestic mysticism / Lucie Brock-Broido (1988) -- Above the inland empire today / Killarney Clary (1989) -- Modern love / John Yau (1989) -- Oh / Robert Creeley (1990) -- December journal / Charles Wright (1990) -- The piano player explains himself / Allen Grossman (1991) -- An atlas of the difficult world XIII (Dedications) / Adrienne Rich (1991) -- Lamium / Louise Glück (1992) -- Self-portrait in Tyvek windbreaker / James Merrill (1992 / 1995) -- Salt / Linda Gregerson (1993 / 1996) -- Emptiness / Kay Ryan (1993) -- "A wooden eye, an 1884 silver dollar, a homemade explosive, a set of false teeth, and a 14-Karat gold ashtray" / Albert Goldbarth (1995 / 1998) -- honey jars of hair / Harryette Mullen (1995) -- Halley's Comet / Stanley Kunitz (1995) -- Letters to Zanzotto : Letter 3 / Michael Palmer (1995) -- Our Lady of the Snows / Robert Hass (1996) -- Key episodes from an earthly life / C.D. Wright (1996) -- Blood on the wheel / Juan Felipe Herrera (1999) -- A song that we still sing / Carter Revard (2001) -- Epigraph / Allan Peterson (2001) -- Our nature / Rae Armantrout (2001) -- Race / Elizabeth Alexander (2001) -- A / ppeal A / pple A / dam A / dream / Liz Waldner (2002) -- Please forward & / kari edwards (2003) -- Tonight / Agha Shahid Ali (1996 / 2003) -- [when he comes he is neither sun nor shade : a china doll] / D.A. Powell (2004) -- Sans serif / Angie Estes (2005) -- To the wires overhead / W.S. Merwin (2005 / 2007) -- On sleep / Bernadette Mayer (2005) -- Moab / Donald Revell (2005 / 2007) -- The blue terrance / Terrance Hayes (2006) -- Futures / Jorie Graham (2007 / 2008) -- Miss Weariness / Laura Kasischke (2007) -- Song of the mortar and pestle / Frank Bidart (2008) -- Lustron : the house America has been waiting for / Robyn Schiff (2008) -- Q is for the quick / Mary Jo Bang (2009) -- Viagra / Lucia Perillo (2009) -- The workhorse / Melissa Range (2010) -- Prescription / Joseph Massey (2011) -- Date : post glacial / dg nanouk okpik (2012) -- Class / Rosa Alcalá (2012) -- Oversized T-shirts / Gabby Bess (2012 / 2013) -- Hide-and-seek with God / Brenda Shaughnessy (2012) -- You and your partner go to see the film / Claudia Rankine (2014) -- Oulipo / Brandon Som (2014) -- Weeping / Ross Gay (2015). |
| Summary |
Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variety--leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline making urgency of Claudia Rankine's Citizen to the stark pathos of Louise Glück, the limitless energy of J. F. Herrera, and the erotic provocations of D. A. Powell. The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today. It presents a wide range of poems selected by Burt for this volume, each accompanied by an original essay explaining how a given poem works, why it matters, and how the poem speaks to other parts of art and culture. Included here are some classroom classics (by Ashbery, Komunyakaa, Hass), less famous poems by very famous poets (Glück, Kay Ryan), prizewinning poets near the start of their careers (such as Brandon Som), and others who are not--or not yet--well known. The Poem Is You will appeal to poets, teachers, and students, but it is intended especially for readers who want to learn more about contemporary American poetry but who have not known where or how to start. It describes what American poets have fashioned for one another, and what they can give us today. -- Provided by publisher |
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780674737877 (cloth) : $27.95 |
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0674737873 |
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