101 Great American Poems

101 Great American Poems

Author: The American Poetry & Literacy Project

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-04

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0486110265

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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.


Not Me

Not Me

Author: Eileen Myles

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Published: 1991-06

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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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.


Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Anthology of Modern American Poetry

Author: Cary Nelson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1249

ISBN-13: 9780195122701

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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 Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems

Author: Donald Hall

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0195123735

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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.


The Best Loved Poems of the American People

The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Author: Hazel Felleman

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 1936

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 0385000197

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Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.


Best of the Best American Poetry

Best of the Best American Poetry

Author: David Lehman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-09

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1451658893

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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.


The Poem Is You

The Poem Is You

Author: Stephanie Burt

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0674737873

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The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture.


Americans' Favorite Poems

Americans' Favorite Poems

Author: Robert Pinsky

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 9780393048209

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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.


50 American Plays (Poems)

50 American Plays (Poems)

Author: Michael Dickman

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1619320401

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"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.


Talk Poetry

Talk Poetry

Author: David Baker

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1610754972

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What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.