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from: University Of Iowa Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.608
EAN: 9780877459095
ISBN: 0877459096
Label: University Of Iowa Press
Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 330
Publication Date: December 01, 2004
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Sales Rank: 1227277
Studio: University Of Iowa Press
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Book Description:
This landmark collection features emerging poets who combine a commitment to innovation and experimentation with a love for the lyric tradition, whose poetry transcends 'mainstream' and avant-garde practice to create new and exciting poetic territories.
These new American poetries for the twenty-first century and beyond reach back toward the Modernists and even earlier lyric poetries (such as those of Wyatt, Donne, Keats, and Dickinson) and, simultaneously, reach forward to poetic possibilities not yet realized or even imagined. Most of the poets included here have won publication prizes, awards, and fellowships, and some have had their work anthologized. Others are at earlier stages of recognition but have published in major journals. All are writing highly accomplished work that will soon find a wider audience.
One distinguishing feature of this collection is the inclusion of substantial artistic statements from each contributor, in which the poets discuss their works, their influences, their aims, and their poetics. These statements are invaluable in giving readers a point of entry to the poems and can contribute to the development of a conversation among American poets that transcends questions of 'craft' to address fundamental issues of poetry as an artistic practice.
Shepherd, a leading poet, essayist, and literary critic, is uniquely situated to bring us this important collection: young enough to feel the spirit of newer poets and yet established enough to bring a more experienced eye and a wider view to this groundbreaking project. The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries highlights some of the most exciting, vital, and productive tendencies in contemporary American poetry and will be a significant milestone for students and teachers of poetry as well as for the general reader.
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