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Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry: Volume 2
Cary Nelson (Ed.)
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Description for Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry: Volume 2
Paperback. Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry contains poems by over 115 American poets, including many who have not been anthologized before. This collection is the first to review the twentieth century comprehensively, and is the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poem sequences. Editor(s): Nelson, Cary. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 227 x 28. Weight in Grams: 996.
Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Second Edition, contains poems by more than 115 poets born in 1910 or later, including many who have not been anthologized before. Editor Cary Nelson introduces students to a diverse selection of vital poetry, presenting both canonical and lesser-known selections by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. In addition to offering the most detailed annotations available in an anthology of this type and selected poems in the beautifully illustrated form in which they first appeared, this is also the first collection to give full treatment to American long poems ... Read more
Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Second Edition, contains poems by more than 115 poets born in 1910 or later, including many who have not been anthologized before. Editor Cary Nelson introduces students to a diverse selection of vital poetry, presenting both canonical and lesser-known selections by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. In addition to offering the most detailed annotations available in an anthology of this type and selected poems in the beautifully illustrated form in which they first appeared, this is also the first collection to give full treatment to American long poems ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
864
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199920730
SKU
V9780199920730
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Ref
99-86
About Cary Nelson (Ed.)
Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author or editor of 28 books, including Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945 (1989), which helped revolutionize the study of American poetry.
Reviews for Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry: Volume 2
The Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry is an impressive collection, ranging in style - from traditional to experimental-and in content-from private to public concerns. It provides poetic sustenance for a variety of student hungers.
Rhonda Pettit, University of Cincinnati
Rhonda Pettit, University of Cincinnati