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I Speak of the City
Stephen . Ed(S): Wolf
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Description for I Speak of the City
Hardback. Features poems which speak of the thrills of a skyscraper's observation deck and the privations of teeming tenements in New York. Editor(s): Wolf, Stephen. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of ... Read more
I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize recipients, fifteen Pulitzer Prize winners, and many other recognizable names, but it also preserves the work of long-neglected poets who celebrate the wild possibilities and colossal achievements of this epic city. Poets capture New York's major moments and transformations, writing of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140645
SKU
V9780231140645
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Ref
99-15
About Stephen . Ed(S): Wolf
Born in Chicago and with a doctorate from the University of Illinois, Stephen Wolf moved to the Lower East Side in 1977, blocks from where his grandparents once lived. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Ploughshares, and the anthology American Families, and his story cycle Intimate Articles, with illustrations by Larry Rivers, was published by Ten Speed Press. He teaches ... Read more
Reviews for I Speak of the City
A rich poetic hymnal to New York, with an excellent breadth of poets.
Natalie Whittle Financial Times Weekend Magazine A wonderful series of snapshots-impressions through verse-of our city. New York Post [I Speak of the City] reminds jaded New Yorkers that some people can find poetry in the magnificent and the mundane.
Sam Roberts New York Times
Natalie Whittle Financial Times Weekend Magazine A wonderful series of snapshots-impressions through verse-of our city. New York Post [I Speak of the City] reminds jaded New Yorkers that some people can find poetry in the magnificent and the mundane.
Sam Roberts New York Times