The Heart Of American Poetry
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The Heart Of American Poetry
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Author : Edward Hirsch
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2022-04-19
The Heart Of American Poetry written by Edward Hirsch and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Poetry categories.
An acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American tradition We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what’s best in us. In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew—from Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book” and Phillis Wheatley’s “To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works” to Garrett Hongo’s “Ancestral Graves, Kahuku” and Joy Harjo’s “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks”—exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation. “This is a personal book about American poetry,” writes Hirsch, “but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me, part of my affective life, my critical consideration, but I have also tried to be cognizant of the changing playbook in American poetry, which is not fixed but fluctuating, ever in flow, to pay attention to the wider consideration, the appreciable reach of our literature. This is a book of encounters and realizations.”
The Treasury Of American Poetry
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Author : Nancy Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Treasury Of American Poetry written by Nancy Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with American poetry categories.
An anthology of best-love poems by American poets.
The Oxford Book Of American Poetry
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Author : David Lehman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2006
The Oxford Book Of American Poetry written by David Lehman and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Poetry categories.
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
The New Anthology Of American Poetry
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Author : Steven Gould Axelrod
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2003
The New Anthology Of American Poetry written by Steven Gould Axelrod and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Collections categories.
Overview: 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.
The Union Of American Poetry And Art
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Author : John James Piatt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The Union Of American Poetry And Art written by John James Piatt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with American poetry categories.
Beautiful Enemies
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Author : Andrew Epstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-21
Beautiful Enemies written by Andrew Epstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after the Second World War. By focusing on some of the most significant postmodernist American poets--the "New York School" poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka--Beautiful Enemies reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of postwar American poetry and culture: the avant-garde's commitment to individualism and nonconformity runs directly counter to its own valorization of community and collaboration. In fact, Epstein demonstrates that the clash between friendship and nonconformity complicates the legendary alliances forged by postwar poets, becomes a predominant theme in the poetry they created, and leaves contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate. Rather than simply celebrating friendship and poetic community as nurturing and inspiring, these poets represent friendship as a kind of exhilarating, maddening contradiction, a site of attraction and repulsion, affinity and rivalry. Challenging both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion, this book provides a new interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of the individual within them. By situating his extensive and revealing readings of these highly influential poets against the backdrop of Cold War cultural politics and within the context of American pragmatist thought, Epstein uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of postwar American poetry.
Reading The Middle Generation Anew
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Author : Eric Haralson
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2006-04
Reading The Middle Generation Anew written by Eric Haralson and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940s through the 1960s.In addition to having worked during the broad middle of the last century, these poets constitute the center of twentieth-century American poetry in the larger sense, refuting invidious connotations of “middle” as coming after the great moderns and being superseded by a proliferating postmodern experimentation. This middle generation mediates the so-called American century and its prodigious body of poetry, even as it complicates historical and aesthetic categorizations.Taking diverse formal and thematic angles on these poets---biographical-historical, deconstructionist, and more formalist accounts---this book re-examines their between-ness and ambivalence: their various positionings and repositionings in aesthetic, political, and personal matters. The essays study the interplay between these writers and such shifting formations as religious discourse, consumerism, militarism and war, the ideology of America as “nature's nation,” and U.S. race relations and ethnic conflicts. Reading the Middle Generation Anew also shows the legacy of the middle generation, the ways in which their lives and writings continue to be a shaping force in American poetry. This fresh and invigorating collection will be of great interest to literary scholars and poets.
The Best Of American Poetry And Literature
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Author : Benjamin Mester
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-15
The Best Of American Poetry And Literature written by Benjamin Mester and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with categories.
The poet, Rumi, once said: I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. And so, the fire has gone forth from poet to reader ever since. Of all the literature and poetry of the English language, none is more ablaze with the fire of passion than the writings of early America, which contained a magical spirit of newness and adventure etched in its very pages. When visiting the prairies for the first time, the poet William Cullen Bryant was overwhelmed by their vastness, none from the old world ever having witnessed such a sight, and said: These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name. So much that was to happen in early America was something new, a thing for which the speech of England yet had no name. A new form of government which had never been tried was overseeing a new blending of peoples who explored new places and formed new ways of living never before attempted. As Thoreau said in the opening pages of Walden: Man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. The poems and writings contained in this book are not those you'll be quick to find filling the nearly endless volumes and collections of every bookstore and library - those poems which speak to the mind of the academic more than the heart of the common person. The poems and writings in this book are those which have a true fire to impart to the longing soul. As you read the pages of this volume, allow your thinking to expand, and your heart to long for a greater measure of life than you have thus far lived. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any absolute and permanent existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.Thoreau Table of Contents 1) Introduction to Walden2) Walden by Henry David Thoreau 3) The Life of Inspiration 4) Introduction to Poetry 5) Edna St Vincent Millay 6) Sara Teasdale 7) Robert Frost 8) William Cullen Bryant 9) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 10) John Greenleaf Whittier 11) Benjamin Mester
The New American Poetry 1945 1960
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Author : Donald Allen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999
The New American Poetry 1945 1960 written by Donald Allen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers. More than the repetition of familiar names and ideas that most anthologies seem to be about, here was the declaration of a collective, intelligent, and thoroughly visionary work-in-progress: the primary example for its time of the anthology-as-manifesto. Its republication today--complete with poems, statements on poetics, and autobiographical projections--provides us, again, with a model of how a contemporary anthology can and should be shaped. In these essentials it remains as fresh and useful a guide as it was in 1960."--Jerome Rothenberg, editor of Poems for the Millennium "The New American Poetry is a crucial cultural document, central to defining the poetics and the broader cultural dynamics of a particular historical moment."--Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
The Beauty
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Author : Jane Hirshfield
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2015-03-17
The Beauty written by Jane Hirshfield and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-17 with Poetry categories.
The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems—“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”—using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our shared existence. With a pen faithful to the actual yet dipped at times in the ink of the surreal, Hirshfield considers the inner and outer worlds we live in yet are not confined by; reflecting on advice given her long ago—to avoid the word “or”—she concludes, “Now I too am sixty. / There was no other life.” Hirshfield’s lines cut, as always, directly to the heart of human experience. Her robust affirmation of choice even amid inevitability, her tender consciousness of the unjudging beauty of what exists, her abiding contemplation of our moral, societal, and biological intertwinings, sustain poems that tune and retune the keys of a life. For this poet, “Zero Plus Anything Is a World.” Hirshfield’s riddling recipes for that world (“add salt to hunger”; “add time to trees”) offer a profoundly altered understanding of our lives’ losses and additions, and of the small and larger beauties we so often miss.