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The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine

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Description for The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine Paperback. Features a kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one hundred poems. Editor(s): Share, Don; Wiman, Christian. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
To celebrate the centennial of Poetry, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed the magazine's vast archives to create a new kind of anthology, energized by a self-imposed limitation to one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive - or even to offer the most familiar works - they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtapositions, echo across a century of poetry. The result is an anthology like no other, a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and most of all, a book that ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226104010
SKU
V9780226104010
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Don Share
Don Share, senior editor of Poetry, is a poet and the author, editor, or translator of numerous books. Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry from 2003 to 2013, is the author of three books of poetry, a volume of essays, and a memoir.

Reviews for The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine
"A high-wire anthology of electric resonance.... The editors arranged poems by poets of the pantheon and poets overlooked, underrated, or new in pairings and sequences of thrilling contrapuntal dynamics. Christian Wiman's opening essay is titled 'Mastery and Mystery,' and those are, indeed, the forces at work here, inducing readers to marvel anew at the strange impulse to write poetry and ... Read more

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