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The state of the art : a chronicle of American poetry, 1988-2014 /
"This book collects all twenty-nine forewords from The Best American Poetry series. Beginning with a new introduction by David Lehman and a foreword by poet Denise Duhamel (guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013), the collection conveys a sense of American poetry in the making, year by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2015]
©20 |
| Colección: | Pitt poetry series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword by Denise Duhamel; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1988. "like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo"; 1989. in an unlit alcove where bookstore patrons fear to tread; 1990. to inflame passions, disturb the complacent, and arouse the anxiety of despots; 1991. a poem entitled "Cigarettes" by a poet named Ash; 1992. The question of poetry and its audience; 1993. the gust of fresh air that turned into the blizzard of '93; 1994. It's safe to say that the inaugural was the best-attended poetry reading of the decade.
- 1995. At least somebody played ball in 19941996. a given volume in this series might hang question marks over all three terms in the title; 1997. As a gimmick, if that's what it is, National Poetry Month worked; The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997 (1998). The debate is joined; 1998. The president spoke of having had to memorize 100 lines of Macbeth; 1999. "Whitman rocks"; 2000. "Now I know how poems feel"; 2001. "Everybody else was analog and Nietzsche was digital"; 2002. The day now marks a boundary; 2003. "How many people have to die before you can become president?"
- 2004. canons do not remain fixed for long2005. the creative writing workshop [and] the fall of civilization; 2006. Accessibility-as a term and, implicitly, as a value; 2007. Undoubtedly the most parodied of all poems; 2008. Who says that hot poems can't get you into trouble in 2008?; 2009. "that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry"; 2010. McChrystal sent copies of "The Second Coming" to his special operators; 2011. in Dickinson's brain, "wider than the sky"; 2012. the "uncanny" is a category too little invoked.
- The Best of the Best American Poetry, 25th Anniversary Edition (2013). "Every time I read Pessoa I think"2013. It was his poetry that kept him going; 2014. In the antagonism between science and the humanities; Index of Names.