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  1. The Undiscovered Country
    Poetry in the Age of Tin
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book... more

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    William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement (London), and other journals, William Logan has delivered razor-sharp assessments of poets present and past. Logan, whom James Wolcott of Vanity Fair has praised as being "the best poetry critic in America," vividly assays the most memorable and most damning features of a poet's work. While his occasionally harsh judgments have raised some eyebrows and caused their share of controversy (a number of poets have offered to do him bodily harm), his readings offer the fresh and provocative perspectives of a passionate and uncompromising critic, unafraid to separate the tin from the gold.The longer essays in The Undiscovered Country explore a variety of poets who have shaped and shadowed contemporary verse, measuring the critical and textual traditions of Shakespeare's sonnets, Whitman's use of the American vernacular, the mystery of Marianne Moore, and Milton's invention of personality, as well as offering a thorough reconsideration of Robert Lowell and a groundbreaking analysis of Sylvia Plath's relationship to her father.Logan's unsparing "verse chronicles" present a survey of the successes and failures of contemporary verse. Neither a poet's tepid use of language nor lackadaisical ideas nor indulgence in grotesque sentimentality escapes this critic's eye. While railing against the blandness of much of today's poetry (and the critics who trumpet mediocre work), Logan also celebrates Paul Muldoon's high comedy, Anne Carson's quirky originality, Seamus Heaney's backward glances, Czeslaw Milosz's indictment of Polish poetry, and much more.Praise for Logan's previous works:Desperate Measures (2002)"When it comes to separating the serious from the fraudulent, the ambitious from the complacent, Logan has consistently shown us what is wheat and what is chaff.... The criticism we remember is neither savage nor mandarin.... There is no one in his generation more likely to write it than William Logan."-Adam Kirsch, Oxford AmericanReputations of the Tongue (1999)"Is there today a more stringent, caring reader of American poetry than William Logan? Reputations of the Tongue may, at moments, read harshly. But this edge is one of deeply considered and concerned authority.

     

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  2. Flyover Country
    Poems
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as "memorable" (Stephen Burt, Yale Review) and "impressive" (Chicago Tribune)Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence... more

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    A new collection about violence and the rural Midwest from a poet whose first book was hailed as "memorable" (Stephen Burt, Yale Review) and "impressive" (Chicago Tribune)Flyover Country is a powerful collection of poems about violence: the violence we do to the land, to animals, to refugees, to the people of distant countries, and to one another. Drawing on memories of his childhood on a dairy farm in Illinois, Austin Smith explores the beauty and cruelty of rural life, challenging the idea that the American Midwest is mere "flyover country," a place that deserves passing over. At the same time, the collection suggests that America itself has become a flyover country, carrying out drone strikes and surveillance abroad, locked in a state of perpetual war that Americans seem helpless to stop.In these poems, midwestern barns and farmhouses are linked to other lands and times as if by psychic tunnels. A poem about a barn cat moving her kittens in the night because they have been discovered by a group of boys resonates with a poem about the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis. A poem beginning with a boy on a farmhouse porch idly swatting flies ends with the image of people fleeing before a drone strike. A poem about a barbwire fence suggests, if only metaphorically, the debate over immigration and borders. Though at times a dark book, the collection closes with a poem titled "The Light at the End," suggesting the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.Building on Smith's reputation as an accessible and inventive poet with deep insights about rural America, Flyover Country also draws profound connections between the Midwest and the wider world

     

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    Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 147
    Subjects: POETRY / American / General; American poetry
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  3. The First Book
    Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America
    Author: Zuba, Jesse
    Published: [2015]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    "We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry... more

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    "We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique literary production with its own tradition, conventions, and dynamic role in the literary market. Through new readings of poets ranging from Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore to John Ashbery and Louise Glück, Jesse Zuba illuminates the importance of the first book in twentieth-century American literary culture, which involved complex struggles for legitimacy on the part of poets, critics, and publishers alike. Zuba investigates poets' diverse responses to the question of how to launch a career in an increasingly professionalized literary scene that threatened the authenticity of the poetic calling. He shows how modernist debuts evoke markedly idiosyncratic paths, while postwar first books evoke trajectories that balance professional imperatives with traditional literary ideals. Debut titles ranging from Simpson's The Arrivistes to Ken Chen's Juvenilia stress the strikingly pervasive theme of beginning, accommodating a new demand for career development even as it distances the poets from that demand.Combining literary analysis with cultural history, The First Book will interest scholars and students of twentieth-century literature as well as readers and writers of poetry

     

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    ISBN: 9781400873791
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; American poetry; Authorship; Poets, American
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  4. Gunslinger
    Author: Dorn, Edward
    Published: [2018]; © 1968
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition"Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece."---Thomas McGuaneThis fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn's masterpiece, Gunslinger, a comic, anti-epic critique of American capitalism that still... more

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    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition"Gunslinger is a fundamental American masterpiece."---Thomas McGuaneThis fiftieth anniversary edition commemorates Edward Dorn's masterpiece, Gunslinger, a comic, anti-epic critique of American capitalism that still resonates today. Set in the American West, the Gunslinger, his talking horse Claude Lévi-Strauss, a saloon madam named Lil, and the narrator called "I" set out in search of the billionaire Howard Hughes. As they travel along the Rio Grande to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, and finally on to Colorado, they are joined by a whole host of colorful characters: Dr. Jean Flamboyant, Kool Everything, and Taco Desoxin and his partner Tonto Pronto. During their adventures and hijinks, as captured in Dorn's multilayered, absurd, and postmodern voice, they joke and smoke their way through debates about the meaning of existence. Put simply, Gunslinger is an American classic.In a new foreword Marjorie Perloff discusses Gunslinger's continued relevance to contemporary politics. This new edition also includes a critical essay by Michael Davidson and Charles Olson's idiosyncratic "Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn," which he wrote to provide guidance for Dorn's study of, and writing about, the American West

     

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    ISBN: 9781478002307
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  5. Interventions into Modernist Cultures
    Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen
    Published: [2007]; © 2007
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

    Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or... more

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    Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold War neocolonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia. Focusing on poetry, a genre often overlooked in postcolonial theory, she contends that the radically fragmented form of modernist poetic texts is particularly well suited to representing U.S. imperialism and neocolonial modernities.Reading various works by U.S. expatriates Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, Parry compares the cultural politics of U.S. canonical modernism with alternative representations of temporality, hybridity, erasure, and sexuality in the work of the Taiwanese writers Yü Kwang-chung and Hsia Yü and the Asian American immigrant author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Juxtaposing poems by Pound and Yü Kwang-chung, Parry shows how Yü's fragmented, ambivalent modernist form reveals the effects of neocolonialism while Pound denies and obscures U.S. imperialism in Asia, asserting a form of nondevelopmental universalism through both form and theme. Stein appropriates discourses of American modernity and identity to represent nonnormative desire and sexuality, and Parry contrasts this tendency with representations of sexuality in the contemporary experimental poetry of Hsia Yü. Finally, Parry highlights the different uses of modernist forms by Pound in his Cantos-which incorporate a multiplicity of decontextualized and ahistorical voices-and by Cha in her 1982 novel Dictee, a historicized, multilingual work. Parry's sophisticated readings provide a useful critical framework for apprehending how "minor modernisms" illuminate the histories erased by certain canonical modernist texts

     

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    Contributor: Lowe, Lisa (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9780822389866
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    Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; American poetry; Chinese poetry; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Literature)
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  6. Sadness and Happiness
    Poems by Robert Pinsky
    Published: [2021]; © 1976
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky ? Against weather, and the randomHarpies--mood, circumstance, the lawsOf biography, chance, physics--The unseasonable soul holds forth,Eager for form as a... more

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    From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky:CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING Robert Pinsky ? Against weather, and the randomHarpies--mood, circumstance, the lawsOf biography, chance, physics--The unseasonable soul holds forth,Eager for form as a renownedPedant, the emperor's man of worth,Hereditary arbiter of manners. Soul, one's life is one's enemy.As the small children learn, what happensTakes over, and what you were goes away.They learn it in sardonic softComments of the weather, when it sharpensThe hard surfaces of daylight: lightWinds, vague in direction, like blades Lavishing their brilliant strokesAll over a wrecked house,The nude wallpaper and the bruteIntelligence of the torn pipes.Therefore when you marry or buildPray to be untrue to the plainDominance of your own weather, how it keeps Going even in the woods when notA soul is there, and how it impliesAlways that separate, coldSplendidness, uncouth and unkind--On chilly, unclouded mornings,Torrential sunlight and moist air,Leafage and solid bark breathing the mist

     

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    Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 160
    Subjects: POETRY / American / General; American poetry
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  7. Yellow Stars and Ice
    Published: [2021]; © 1981
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden":Gihon, that compasseth the whole landAt the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were... more

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    From a sequence, "The Countries Surrounding the Garden of Eden":Gihon, that compasseth the whole landAt the first frost we found our sheep with strangled hearts, lying on their backs in the frozen clover, their eyes wide open as if they were surprised by a constellation of drought or endless winter. The wolves walked into the snow, like men who have given up living without love; cows would no longer let go of their calves, hiding them deep in the birch groves. Everywhere the roads gave off their wild animal cries, running toward the edge of what we had thought was the world. And the names of things as we knew them would no longer bring them to us

     

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    Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 157
    Subjects: POETRY / American / General; American poetry
    Scope: 1 online resource (82 pages)
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  8. Broken Ground
    Poetry and the Demon of History
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson's... more

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    In Broken Ground, William Logan explores the works of canonical and contemporary poets, rediscovering the lushness of imagination and depth of feeling that distinguish poetry as a literary art. The book includes long essays on Emily Dickinson's envelopes, Ezra Pound's wrestling with Chinese, Robert Frost's letters, Philip Larkin's train station, and Mrs. Custer's volume of Tennyson, each teasing out the depths beneath the surface of the page.Broken Ground also presents the latest run of Logan's infamous poetry chronicles and reviews, which for twenty-five years have bedeviled American verse. Logan believes that poetry criticism must be both adventurous and forthright-and that no reader should settle for being told that every poet is a genius. Among the poets under review by the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and "most hated man in American poetry" are Anne Carson, Jorie Graham, Paul Muldoon, John Ashbery, Geoffrey Hill, Louise Glück, John Berryman, Marianne Moore, Frederick Seidel, Les Murray, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, Johnny Cash, James Franco, and the former archbishop of Canterbury.Logan's criticism stands on the broken ground of poetry, soaked in history and soiled by it. These essays and reviews work in the deep undercurrents of our poetry, judging the weak and the strong but finding in weakness and strength what endures

     

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  9. Prose poetry
    an introduction
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; Oxford

    An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind—an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language... more

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    An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind—an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetry’s key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today’s most inventive writing.A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetry’ s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting women’s essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre.Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry

     

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  10. Lyric as comedy
    the poetics of abjection in postwar America
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca ; London

    A poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a... more

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    A poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn.Lyric as Comedy draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. McRae reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging.The close readings in Lyric as Comedy also provide new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry. In doing so, McRae captures varieties of humor that do not align with traditional terms, centering abjection and pleasure as facets of contemporary lyric practice

     

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  11. Black Riders
    The Visible Language of Modernism
    Published: [2020]; © 1993
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    "English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to... more

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    "English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible language" of modernism. McGann then offers a philosophical investigation into the relation of knowledge and truth to this kind of imaginative writing. Exploring the work of writers like William Morris, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein, as well as Laura Riding and Bob Brown, he shows how each exploits the visibilities of language, often by aligning their work with older traditions of so-called Adamic language. McGann argues that in modernist writing, philosophical nominalism emerges as a key aesthetic point of departure. Such writing thus develops a pragmatic and performative "answer to Plato" in the matter of poetry's relation to truth and philosophy

     

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  12. A New Theory for American Poetry
    Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination
    Published: [2022]; © 2004
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

    "Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in... more

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    "Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art that will resonate well into the new century. Breaking with the tired habit of treating American poets as the happy or rebellious children of European romanticism, Fletcher uncovers a distinct lineage for American poetry. His point of departure is the fascinating English writer, John Clare; he then centers on the radically American vision expressed by Emerson and Walt Whitman. With Whitman this book insists that "the whole theory and nature of poetry" needs inspiration from science if it is to achieve a truly democratic vista. Drawing variously on Complexity Theory and on fundamentals of art and grammar, Fletcher argues that our finest poetry is nature-based, environmentally shaped, and descriptive in aim, enabling poets like John Ashbery and other contemporaries to discover a mysterious pragmatism. Intense, resonant, and deeply literary, this account of an American poetics shows how today's consumerist and conformist culture subverts the imagination of a free people. While centering on American vision, the argument extends our horizon, striking a blow against all economically sanctioned attacks upon the finer, stronger human capacities. Poetry, the author maintains, is central to any coherent vision of life.

     

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    ISBN: 9780674037014
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    Subjects: POETRY / General; American poetry; Democracy in literature; Démocratie dans la littérature; Ecology in literature; Environmental protection in literature; Environnement; Imagination; Nature dans la littérature; Nature in literature; Poésie américaine; Écologie dans la littérature
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  13. Common Wealth
    Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania
    Contributor: Maddox, Marjorie (Publisher); Wemple, Jerry (Publisher)
    Published: [2021]; © 2005
    Publisher:  Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

    Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state's history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their... more

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    Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state's history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their point of origin or their destination, the featured poets ultimately find what matters: heritage, pride, work, inventiveness, struggle, faith, beauty, hope. Keystone poets Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple celebrate Pennsylvania with this wide range of new and veteran poets, including former state poet Samuel Hazo, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin, W. S. Merwin, and W. D. Snodgrass, and Reading-born master John Updike. The book's 103 poets also include such noted authors as Diane Ackerman, Maggie Anderson, Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Gary Fincke, Harry Humes, Julia Kasdorf, Ed Ochester, Jay Parini, Len Roberts, Sonia Sanchez, Betsy Sholl, and Judith Vollmer. In these pages, poems sketch the landscapes and cultural terrain of the state, delving into the history, traditions, and people of Philadelphia, "Dutch" country, the coal-mining region, the Poconos, and the Lehigh Valley; the Three Rivers region; the Laurel Highlands; and Erie and the Allegheny National Forest. Theirs is a complex narrative cultivated for centuries in coal mines, kitchens, elevated trains, and hometowns, a tale that illuminates the sanctity of the commonplace-the daily chores of a Mennonite housewife, a polka dance in Coaldale, the late shift at a steel factory, the macadam of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. With its panoramic vision of Pennsylvania, its culture, and its thriving literary heritage, Common Wealth is a collection of remembrance for a state that continues to inspire countless contributions to American literature

     

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    Contributor: Maddox, Marjorie (Publisher); Wemple, Jerry (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9780271031910
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    Subjects: HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA); American poetry
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  14. The Queer Nuyorican
    Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida
    Author: Jaime, Karen
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City's Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor... more

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    A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City's Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka and is widely credited as the homespace for the emergent nuyorican literary and aesthetic movement of the 1990s. Founded by a group of counterculturalist Puerto Rican immigrants and artists in the 1970s, the space slowly transformed the Puerto Rican ethnic and cultural associations of the epithet "Nuyorican," as the Cafe developed into a central hub for an artistic movement encompassing queer, trans, and diasporic performance.The Queer Nuyorican is the first queer genealogy and critical study of the historical, political, and cultural conditions under which the term "Nuyorican" shifted from a raced/ethnic identity marker to "nuyorican," an aesthetic practice. The nuyorican aesthetic recognizes and includes queer poets and performers of color whose writing and performance build upon the politics inherent in the Cafe's founding. Initially situated within the Cafe's physical space and countercultural discursive history, the nuyorican aesthetic extends beyond these gendered and ethnic boundaries, broadening the ethnic marker Nuyorican to include queer, trans, and diasporic performance modalities.Hip-hop studies, alongside critical race, queer, literary, and performance theories, are used to document the interventions made by queer and trans artists of color-Miguel Piñero, Regie Cabico, Glam Slam participants, and Ellison Glenn/Black Cracker-whose works demonstrate how the Nuyorican Poets Cafe has operated as a queer space since its founding. In focusing on artists who began their careers as spoken word artists and slam poets at the Cafe, The Queer Nuyorican examines queer modes of circulation that are tethered to the increasing visibility, commodification, and normalization of spoken word, slam poetry, and hip-hop theater in the United States and abroad

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781479808304
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    Series: Performance and American Cultures ; 4
    Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling; American poetry; American poetry; Minorities; Performance poetry; Performance poets; Sexual minorities' writings, American
    Scope: 1 online resource, 19 b/w illustrations
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  15. The conscious voice
    an anthology of American poetry from the seventeenth century to the present
    Published: 1959
    Publisher:  Liberal Arts Press, New York

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    Series: The American heritage series ; 22
    Subjects: American poetry
    Scope: XXIV, 438 S
  16. T. S. Eliot en España
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Univ., Almería

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    97 A 16051
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    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 8482400401
    Series: Colección literatura y lingu͏̈ística ; 3
    Subjects: English language; Translating and interpreting; American poetry
    Other subjects: Eliot, T. S (1888-1965); Eliot, T. S (1888-1965)
    Scope: 138 S
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-138)

  17. Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams
    Published: 1967
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, Harmondsworth

    Universitätsbibliothek Braunschweig
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    Series: Penguin Modern Poets ; 9
    Subjects: American poetry
    Scope: 117 S.
  18. A new approach to the poetry of Ezra Pound
    through the medieval Provençal aspect
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Mellen, Lewiston, NY [u.a.]

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0773490108
    RVK Categories: HU 4785
    Series: Studies in American literature ; 21
    Subjects: Provençal poetry; Medievalism; American poetry; Middle Ages in literature; Troubadours
    Other subjects: Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
    Scope: XVI, 487 S.
  19. The dramatic monologue
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Twayne Publishers [u.a.], New York, NY

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 080570969X
    Series: Studies in literary themes and genres ; 10
    Subjects: Dramatic monologues; American poetry; English poetry
    Other subjects: Browning, Robert; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, baron; Eliot, T. S.; Pound, Ezra
    Scope: xix, 166 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  20. Of darkness and light
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Erd, Wendy (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781602233751
    Subjects: American poetry; POETRY / American / General ; bisacsh; American poetry; POETRY / American / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
  21. Apocalyptic Messianism and Contemporary Jewish-American Poetry.
    Published: 1986; ©1986.
    Publisher:  State University of New York Press, Albany

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    Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Content -- Definitions And Historic Contexts -- Apocalyptic Historiography And The Messianic Hopeful -- Allegory And The Messianic Story -- The Messianic Ontology -- Back Matter -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

     

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  22. Politics and form in postmodern poetry
    O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0521496071
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 94
    Subjects: American poetry; Politics and literature; Political poetry, American; Postmodernism (Literature); Literary form; Lyrik; Postmoderne
    Other subjects: Bishop, Elizabeth; Merrill, James Ingram; O'Hara, Frank; Ashbery, John; Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Merrill, James Ingram (1926-1995); Ashbery, John (1927-2017); O'Hara, Frank (1926-1966)
    Scope: X, 219 S
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  23. The year of goodbyes
    a true story of friendship, family and farewells
    Author: Levy, Debbie
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Disney-Hyperion Books, Los Angeles

    The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors more

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    The author's mother's 1938 autograph book filled with inscriptions from family and friends is the inspiration for a collection of narrative poems about life in Nazi Germany for a Jewish family trying to escape the horrors

     

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    ISBN: 9781484722961; 1484722965
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); American poetry; American poetry; American poetry; Holocaust, 1939-1945 ; Poetry; Jews ; Persecutions ; Poetry; Juvenile works; Poetry
    Scope: 136 pages, illustrations, portraits, 20 cm
  24. The king's touch
    poems
    Author: Sleigh, Tom
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    I.Youth --In which a spider weaves a web on my computer screen --"refugee" --Not-her --Bernini's David as a young man with slingstone and an electronics repair shop --Confession --Up the hill --Reading --A dictator walks into a bar --Fly --II.Dream... more

     

    I.Youth --In which a spider weaves a web on my computer screen --"refugee" --Not-her --Bernini's David as a young man with slingstone and an electronics repair shop --Confession --Up the hill --Reading --A dictator walks into a bar --Fly --II.Dream of a song woven from the veil --Dead me, live me --Migration --False teeth --Black dog, white dog --Words from Chernobyl --After a sentence in a letter from Pasternak to Rilke, 1926 --Poetic range --Homage tot Vallejo's "Hymn to the Volunteers of the Republic.Another disgrace ;Twilight in the future ;Dream dreamed a millennium too late --What I can say in 2021 about a famine in 2011 --Clearance --Last cigarette --Apology to my daughter --III. Breaker --Ostrich --At Yeat's tower --Queen for a day --Stethoscope.The unified field ;A toast to Pavlov's dog ;The judgment after the last ;Mission ;Sunday is never the last day of the week ;Last rites ;The hunger artist as a senior citizen --A man plays Debussy for a blind, eighty-four-year-old female elephant --My mother as the eyes of a whale on her ninety-second birthday --Conversation --For my mother's ninety-sixth birthday -- IV. The King's touch --Little testament --The King's evil --Age of wonder. "Tom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue."--

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1644450771; 9781644450772
    Subjects: American poetry; American poetry; poetry; Poetry; Poetry; Poésie
    Scope: 116 pages, 23 cm
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  25. Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America
    Author: Yoder, R. A.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of California Press, [S.l.]

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    ISBN: 0520365305; 9780520365308; 9780520338524; 0520338529
    Series: UC Press voices revived
    Subjects: American poetry; Romanticism; American poetry; Literature; Romanticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Orpheus (Greek mythological character); Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Orpheus
    Scope: 258 Seiten, 22 cm
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