Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire
Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire

Author: Carolyne Wright

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize, the American Book Award, and the Oklahoma Book Award, Carolyne Wright's fifth book of poems is a tour de force which, in Yusef Komunyakaa's words, ..". explodes into a multiple reflection on territories, cultures, flesh, and mind. This surefooted narrator seems compelled to know everything our worlds are made of, every stitch and seam of the song." Roger Weingarten said of the book "Brilliantly seen. Passionately rendered. Here is the spirit of the international artist. Here is a book I couldn't put down."

The Best American Poetry 2009
The Best American Poetry 2009

Author: David Wagoner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-09-22

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0743299779

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An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry.

Poets of the New Century
Poets of the New Century

Author: Roger Weingarten

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9781567921779

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Poets of the New Century picks up the thread of contemporary American verse where our earlier anthology, New American Poets of the '90s, left off.

Creativity and the Poetic Mind
Creativity and the Poetic Mind

Author: Jean Tobin

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780820469447

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Creativity and the Poetic Mind mingles the voices of well-known writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Donald Hall, John Koethe, Marge Piercy, and Robert Pinsky with newer voices, and includes engaging excerpts from interviews with thirty-eight American poets. Within a sustained argument about creative states of mind, this book innovatively presents and explores the technique of «going to the place» as more reliable in writing poetry than waiting for «inspiration». It explains why poets frequently believe that talking about their own poetry may damage their creativity and why, for centuries, inspiration has seemed to come from somewhere beyond the poet. In addition, it discusses the practicality of poets' thinking that «being creative» and «writing poetry» are two separate skills: inspiration is unreliable, but experienced poets create daily.

Range of the Possible
Range of the Possible

Author: Tod Marshall

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13:

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A collection of interviews between Tod Marshall and twenty contemporary poets, all born within a few years of 1950.

A Range of Voices
A Range of Voices

Author: Tod Marshall

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Designed to accompany Range of the Possible, Tod Marshall's landmark anthology of interviews with contemporary poets, A Range of Voices offers five poems by each of the twenty poets included in the original volume. The first major anthology of America's leading mid-career poets - those born between 1941 and 1959 - this collection is the applied side of the current discussion of contemporary poetry and poetics, while also providing a brilliant buffet of tones, tropes, styles, structures, and themes. All libraries and all students, teachers, readers, and writers of poetry, and everyone with an interest in contemporary culture, will want a copy of this sparkling new collection. Among the twenty poets included are Linda Bierds, Gillian Conoley, Robert Hass, Edward Hirsch, Christopher Howell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne Laux, Li-Young Lee, Lucia Perillo, David St. John, Dave Smith, and Robert Wrigley.