Learning by heart : contemporary American poetry about school / edited by Maggie Anderson and David Hassler ; foreword by Robert Coles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Maggie.

Hassler, David, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Education--Poetry.

Education.

Schools--Poetry.

Schools.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xviii, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1999]

Summary:

Learning by Heart brings together a unique and diverse collection of poems about the experience of school as seen through the eyes of America's best contemporary poets. These poets capture the educational process not only in the classroom but as it takes place in libraries and hallways, on playing fields and at dances. Alternately joyous and defiant, they demonstrate how it is that young people come to find their place in the world.

Most of the poems in this anthology were written between 1970 and 1995, a period that encompasses both the halcyon years of poets-in-the-schools programs and the primary and secondary school years of many of the poets included. Their poems define school in that most contemporary sense -- with a multitude of voices -- reflecting perspectives from African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Native American as well as Anglo American backgrounds, from both public and private schools in rural and urban environments.

ISBN:

0877456623

0877456631

OCLC:

40119716