American Poet! Poems Volume 3

American Poet! Poems Volume 3
Author: Cassandra Wilson
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2016-03-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1514470411

American Poet, Poems Volume 3 is the best of the best of Cassandra Wilson as only she can. Her verse is smooth and her rhymes are canny, inspirational, and thought-provoking. Her journey takes freedom to a whole new level through expressionism of the written word and her praise is clear, distinctive, and alive. She looks through history through poetic verse in justice given in search of freedom in fact American Poet! is real, realistic, and perceptive and she wakes the dreamer looking through your eyes. Her verse also redefines and reinvents the freedom of a woman in the beauty of poetry with love poems inspired with a woman’s touch. American Poet! is a must read for the poetry lover in us all and each poem titillates the joy and passions of a poet, an American Poet

The New Anthology of American Poetry

The New Anthology of American Poetry
Author: Steven Gould Axelrod
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2012-04-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813562902

Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano continue the standard of excellence set in Volumes I and II of this extraordinary anthology. Volume III provides the most compelling and wide-ranging selection available of American poetry from 1950 to the present. Its contents are just as diverse and multifaceted as America itself and invite readers to explore the world of poetry in the larger historical context of American culture. Nearly three hundred poems allow readers to explore canonical works by such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath, as well as song lyrics from such popular musicians as Bob Dylan and Queen Latifah. Because contemporary American culture transcends the borders of the continental United States, the anthology also includes numerous transnational poets, from Julia de Burgos to Derek Walcott. Whether they are the works of oblique avant-gardists like John Ashbery or direct, populist poets like Allen Ginsberg, all of the selections are accompanied by extensive introductions and footnotes, making the great poetry of the period fully accessible to readers for the first time.

Book of My Nights

Book of My Nights
Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781929918089

Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity. Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailing Li-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of Rose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of America. He followed that astonishing book with The City in Which I Love You, which was The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Lee has appeared on National Public Radio a number of times and The Power of the Word, the PBS television series with Bill Moyers. Rose and The City in Which I Love You are in the 19th and 17th printings respectively, making them two of the highest-selling contemporary poetry books in the United States. Moreover, Mr. Lee's poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He currently lives in Chicago.

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Author: Cary Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1249
Release: 2000
Genre: 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.

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: 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.

The Oxford Book of American Poetry

The Oxford Book of American Poetry
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1193
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 019516251X

Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.

Collected Poems 1940-1978

Collected Poems 1940-1978
Author: Karl Shapiro
Publisher: New York : Random House
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1978
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780394425436

Spanning forty years, this anthology includes the author's choice from all his previously published poems, selections from White-Haired Lover and Adult Bookstore, and fifteen poems that have not appeared before.

Put Your Hands In

Put Your Hands In
Author: Chris Hosea
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 080715587X

"Exactly a century ago, the Armory Show brought European avant-garde art to New York. We are still experiencing its consequences. Among the works on view was Marcel Duchamp's notorious Nude Descending a Staircase, which a derisive critic wanted to rename 'Explosion in a Shingle Factory.' Both titles come to mind as one reads Chris Hosea's Put Your Hands In, which somehow subsumes derision and erotic energy and comes out on top. Maybe that's because 'poetry is the cruelest month,' as he says, correcting T. S. Eliot. Transfixed in midparoxysm, the poems also remind us of Samuel Beckett's line (in Watt): 'The pain not yet pleasure, the pleasure not yet pain.' One feels plunged in a wave of happening that is about to crest."—John Ashbery, from his judge's citation for the Walt Whitman Award

Best of the Best American Poetry

Best of the Best American Poetry
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1451658893

Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry This 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 distinguished poet and man of letters, has chosen for this milestone edition.