Anthology of Magazine Verse
Anthology of Magazine Verse

Author: William Stanley Braithwaite

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 1012

ISBN-13:

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Volume for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."

The Incredible Sestina Anthology
The Incredible Sestina Anthology

Author: Daniel Nester

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1938912373

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More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers—from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith—to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.

The New Anthology of American Poetry
The New Anthology of American Poetry

Author: Steven Gould Axelrod

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2012-04-15

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 0813562902

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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.