Justly celebrated as one of our strongest poets, Stephen Dunn selects from his eight collections and presents sixteen new poems marked by the haunting "Snowmass Cycle."
Poetry for Suzanne is an anthology of some of the best poetry to be found on the Internet. For some of the contributors this is their first time as published poets, while others have already enjoyed critical success and recognition of their work.Poetry for Suzanne initially came about as a vehicle for the members of the Poetry 4 Suzanne Internet workshop/forum to come together in one published volume. It was later decided that the book should be dedicated to the Macmillan Cancer relief fund, with all proceeds from the sale of this book being donated to that charity.In the following pages you will find poetry to break your heart, poetry that will make you think and poetry that will leave you utterly (especially my contributions) confounded. But whatever your taste in poetry you will find it within these pages.
The volume is a compilation of four interviews the poet gave to researchers and poets, eight critical articles evaluating his poetry, and one essay the poet wrote to reflect on his creativity.
"This first substantial presentation of Aygi's poetry to the English-speaking world, with original texts and facing translations, and the translator's critical introduction, end notes and close readings of three poems, draws on each of the mature poem-sequences."--BOOK JACKET.
Accurate and reliable biographical information essential to anyone interested in the world of literature TheInternational Who's Who of Authors and Writersoffers invaluable information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world, including many up-and-coming writers as well as established names. With over 8,000 entries, this updated edition features: * Concise biographical information on novelists, authors, playwrights, columnists, journalists, editors, and critics * Biographical details of established writers as well as those who have recently risen to prominence * Entries detailing career, works published, literary awards and prizes, membership, and contact addresses where available * An extensive listing of major international literary awards and prizes, and winners of those prizes * A directory of major literary organizations and literary agents * A listing of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.