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from: Wave Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.540803543
EAN: 9780974635316
ISBN: 0974635316
Label: Wave Books
Manufacturer: Wave Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: November 01, 2004
Publisher: Wave Books
Sales Rank: 105447
Studio: Wave Books
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Written by 100 American poets, Isn't It Romantic offers an engaging look at how contemporary poets respond afresh to the well-trammeled territory of the love poem. Award-winning poets from across the country lend their voices to this important document of contemporary poetry. The book also features a bonus full-length audio CD of love songs by independent recording artists.
Anthology Contributors include: Karen Volkman, Joe Wenderoth, Eleni Sikelianos, Juliana Spahr, Brenda Shaughnessy, Matthew Rohrer, Claudia Rankine, D.A. Powell, Hoa Nguyen, Noelle Kocot, Lisa Jarnot, Kevin Young, Brian Henry, Christine Hume, Matthea Harvey, Arielle Greenberg, Thalia Field, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Timothy Donnelly, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Stephen Burt, Joshua Beckman, and more.
Contributors to the audio CD include: David Berman, Richard Buckner, Vic Chesnutt, Ida, Doug Martsch, Mark Mulcahy, Megan Reiley, Jenny Toomey and more.
Editor Brett Fletcher Lauer is the poetry in motion director at the Poetry Society of America and poetry editor of CROWD Magazine. He is the co-editor of Poetry In Motion from Coast to Coast (W. W. Norton, 2002) and his poems have appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
Editor Aimee Kelley is the editor and publisher of CROWD Magazine. She received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her MFA from the New School for Social Research. She has worked at non-profit organizations such as the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses and the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, 811 Books and elsewhere.
Charles Simic (Introduction) is the author of many books of poems, including The World Doesn't End, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - No it wasn't, except for a couple.
There were few poems in here that I actually found romantic. With all the good reviews, I even went back and read it again in case I was just in a bad mood when I read it the first time. But, no, my first impressions was the same.
Lee Ann Brown's "After Sappho" was the best. That was because it echoed my own experience with my wife of now 35 years ago. I also liked Catherine Wagner's "Lover" about going back in time and loving various people in literary history. Most of the others just ... Read More
Rating:  - A Big Bag of Caramels
Saddened by the losses? Try this swell anthology. It will make the room glow back at you with convivial company and music. I think a lot, it gets me through, and this is perfect for the bathroom, the bedroom, the windowseat overlooking the construction site. You come across as a horse in touch with intoxicants. Listen: A lot of energy, nerve, tenderness and fashion comes crammed between these pages, and even though it doesn't announce itself as such, what we have here, Doctor, is a case of practically ... Read More
Rating: - Connections
Terrific anthology boasting most of the most pleasant younger poets publishing nowadays. With an ultracool music CD in the bargain, it's chance-free really. You deserve this, dearheart.
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