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From Sappho to Heaney, a stimulating anthology of poets on poetry Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets’ remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on to Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, and Poe, then Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, and Pound, concluding with many of our contemporaries, including Hall, Clifton, Mackey, Kunitz, and Rukeyser. (more …) 456 pages, appendix, index
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Notes to Make the Sound Come RightFour Innovators of Jazz Poetry Professor Anderson traces the growing history of jazz poetry and examines the work of four innovative and critically acclaimed African American poets whose work is informed by a jazz aesthetic: Stephen Jonas (1925?–1970) and the unjustly overlooked Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), who have affinities with Beat poetry; Jayne Cortez (1936– ), whose work is rooted in surrealism; and the difficult and demanding Nathaniel Mackey (1947– ), who has links to the language writers. Each fashioned a significant and vibrant body of work that employs several of the key elements of jazz. (more …) 6" x 9" |
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Essays and criticism on the poetry of over fifty contemporary American poets. (more …) 2000, 232 pages |
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Renowned poets and experts in metrics respond to Robert Wallace's pivotal essay, which clarifies and simplifies methods of studying poetry. Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass has called Wallace's essay "a paradigm shift" in our understanding of English prosody. 1996, 396 pages |
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A former United States poet laureate, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of numerous grants and awards, Mona Van Duyn has been hailed as one of our greatest living American poets. To help broaden and uniquely inform our understanding of Van Duyn's work, editor Michael Burns has gathered ten essays, a poem, a succinct biographical sketch, and Van Duyn's own laureate address to the Library of Congress. Filled with keen prose by distinguished poets and critics, this collection is not only a resounding tribute to one poet's body of work, but also a timely pulse-taking of the literary scene surrounding Van Duyn's poetry. 1999, 160 pages |
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Offered in homage, this book contains memoirs, reviews, and assessments of Donald Justice's work from admirers, critics, and poets he has influenced. Through retrospections, letters, and essays, the editors afford readers a broad and balanced picture of this Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, a writer many consider to be a central conscience of the late twentieth century. 1998, 368 pages |
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Including those of John Crowe Ransom, Randall Jarell, Allen Tate, John Ciardi, and Robert Penn Warren, R.S. Gwynn has returned to print many of the pivotal essays written by America's most influential poet-critics in the last fifty years. 1996, 240 pages |
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Our appreciation of American poetry is as influenced by the personas presented in the poems as by public perception of the poets themselves. Emily Dickinson peeking from behind a doorway with large dark eyes is an indelible image superimposed over her spare, enigmatic poems. The grand gestures of Walt Whitman's voice have much to do with our reading of "Song of Myself." And we cannot hear "Mending Wall" or "Mowing" without thinking of the image of the rustic, sly farmer-poet that Robert Frost so carefully cultivated. (more …) 1999, 144 pages |
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In this lucid and balanced treatise Alan Jacobs reveals the true parameters of Auden's change after the poet's move to America in 1939. By carefully examining poems that represent transitional moments in Auden's thinking, Jacobs identifies the points at which the tectonic plates of the poet's intellect clashed and the buckles and rifts these pressures caused in Auden's body of work. 128 pages |
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"Timothy Steele's excellent book is not a formalist manifesto but an even-handed scholarly account of the whole background of 'free verse' poetics." —Richard Wilbur 1992, 350 pages |
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". . . not revisions but one thorough-going and far-reaching revision—of the course of American poetry through centuries, as commonly understood. It is polemical but good-humored, lightly and racily written but with passion, deeply serious, discerning and timely." —Donald Davie 1986 Melville Cane Award for Literary Criticism 1986, 190 pages |
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A bold anatomy of current American poetry from one of its most rigorous poet-critics. (more …) 2001, 240 pages |
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