Poems For America
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| Author | : Eileen Myles |
| Publisher | : Semiotext(e) |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1991-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
This brilliant, incisive volume captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone. This breakthrough volume, published in 1991 by the author of Cool For You and Chelsea Girls captures the high points of Myles' work in New York City during the 1980s. Poet, novelist, lesbian culture hero and one-time presidential candidate, Myles has influenced a whole generation of young queer girl writers and activists. She is one of the most brilliant, incisive, immediate writers living today.
| Author | : Tony Hoagland |
| Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2014-11-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1555973299 |
A fearless, wide-ranging book on the state of poetry and American literary culture by Tony Hoagland, the author of What Narcissism Means to Me Live American poetry is absent from our public schools. The teaching of poetry languishes, and that region of youthful neurological terrain capable of being ignited only by poetry is largely dark, unpopulated, and silent, like a classroom whose shades are drawn. This is more than a shame, for poetry is our common treasure-house, and we need its vitality, its respect for the subconscious, its willingness to entertain ambiguity, its plaintive truth-telling, and its imaginative exhibitions of linguistic freedom, which confront the general culture's more grotesque manipulations. We need the emotional training sessions poetry conducts us through. We need its previews of coming attractions: heartbreak, survival, failure, endurance, understanding, more heartbreak. —from "Twenty Poems That Could Save America" Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Essays on the "vertigo" effects of new poetry give way to appraisals of Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, and Dean Young. At the heart of this book is an honesty and curiosity about the ways poetry can influence America at both the private and public levels. Tony Hoagland is already one of this country's most provocative poets, and this book confirms his role as a restless and perceptive literary and cultural critic.
| Author | : The American Poetry & Literacy Project |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2012-04-04 |
| Genre | : 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 | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Children's poetry, American |
| ISBN | : 9780439372909 |
A collection of poems evocative of seven geographical regions of the United States, including the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes, Plains, Mountain, Southwest, and Pacific Coast States.
| Author | : Robert Pinsky |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780393048209 |
A collection of favorite poems sent in by thousands of Americans, with selections ranging from Shakespeare to Allen Ginsberg, includes comments from normal readers on how the poems affect them.
| Author | : Hazel Felleman |
| Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 708 |
| Release | : 1936 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 0385000197 |
Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.
| 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.
| Author | : Donald Hall |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Matthew Dickman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : |
All American Poem embraces the ecstatic nature of our daily lives. Introduction by Tony Hoagland.
| Author | : Michael Dickman |
| Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
| Total Pages | : 67 |
| Release | : 2012-11-27 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1619320401 |
"Their verse . . . is strikingly different. Michael's poems are interior, fragmentary, and austere, often stripped down to single-word lines; they seethe with incipient violence. Matthew's are effusive, ecstatic, and all-embracing, spilling over with pop-cultural references and exuberant carnality." —The New Yorker Identical twins Michael and Matthew Dickman once invented their own language. Now they have invented an exhilarating book of poem-plays about the fifty states. Pointed, comic, and surreal, these one-page vignettes feature unusual staging and an eclectic cast of characters—landforms, lobsters, and historical figures including Duke Ellington, Sacajawea, Judy Garland, and Kenneth Koch, the avant-garde spirit informing this book introduced by playwright John Guare. "Lucky in Kansas" Judy Garland: This is always the worst part Tin Man: The coming back Judy Garland: Yes, it fucking sucks, it's depressing as shit The Lion: Well, we're lucky to still be employed at this farm Straw Man: I wouldn't call it lucky The Lion: We were lucky to get back Straw Man: That's not really lucky either I don't think you know what lucky means Judy Garland: It's funny what you miss Tin Man: The running Judy Garland: The flying Tin Man: The flying monkeys Judy Garland: The beautiful flying monkeys above the endless emeralds the unbelievably green world Michael Dickman and Matthew Dickman are identical twins who were born and raised in Portland, Oregon. Michael received the 2010 James Laughlin Award for his second collection Flies (Copper Canyon Press, 2011). Matthew won the prestigious APR/Honickman Award for his debut volume, All-American Poem.
