More truly and more strange : 100 contemporary American self-portrait poems / edited & introduced by Lisa Russ Spaar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spaar, Lisa Russ, editor, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Self--Poetry.

Self.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xxi, 190 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

One hundred American self-portrait poem

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Persea Books, Inc., [2020]

Summary:

"Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture. This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems-brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections-from the mid-twentieth century through today. By experiencing the various ways that our greatest poets re-render and distort themselves, we see America's glorious struggle with defining itself. John Ashbury, Stephanie Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido, Natalie Diaz, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Donika Kelly, Gregory Pardlo, Sylvia Plath, Carl Phillips, Mark Strand, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and many others"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I/Eye

Mirror / Sylvia Plath

Barcode / Kyle G. Dargan

Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror / Mary Jo Bang

To the Face in the Mirror / W. S. Merwin

Taking Aim at a Macy's Changing Room Mirror, I Blame Television / Marcus Wicker

From Self-Portrait as the Mind of a Camera / Terrance Hayes

On Trans / Miller Oberman

Self-Portrait, Masturbating / Steve Gehrke

(Self) Portrait / Natasha Trethewey

Mirrorform / Peter Kline

You

Double Portrait / Brittany Perham

Colosseum / Jericho Brown

This Corner of the Western World / Jennifer Chang

Self-exam (my body is a cage) / Nick Flynn

Self-Portrait with Slightest Provocation / Kimberly Johnson

Annunciation Under Erasure / Mary Szybist

Self-Portrait with Demons / James Tate

Self-Portrait / Chase Twichell

Self-Portrait, Rembrandt, 1658 / Jean Valentine

You / Hayan Charara

OTHER

Self-Portrait in Which I Resemble the Man Next to Me / Justin Boening

Self-Portrait as Kitty Pryde / Stephanie Burt

Love Your Neighbor as Your Self Portrait / Stephen Cushman

And Now Upon My Head the Crown / Phillip B. Williams

Kodac and Chris Walking the Mutual Landscape / Christopher Gilbert

Notes on the Reality of the Self / Jorie Graham

Self-Portrait / Edward Hirsch

Last Portrait as Boy / Saeed Jones

On Conversion Therapy / Sam Sax

Self-Portrait as Somebody Else - / Laura Mullen

THING

Self-Portrait With the Smithfield Ham We Had to Cut on the Bandsaw / Hayden Saunier

Self-Portrait as So Much Potential / Chen Chen

Self-Portrait as Mango / Tarfia Faizullah

Self-Portrait as a Door / Donika Kelly

My Skull / Seido Ray Ronci

Self-Portrait as an Animal Skinned and Hung / Mary Ann Samyn

Self-Portrait as the Letter Y / Tracy K. Smith

Self-Portrait with Crayon / Allison Benis White

Self-Portrait as Sock Puppet / David Wojahn

Check (Incantation Composed On the Occasion of Being Classified as Inadmissible) / Patrick Rosal

ANIMAL

Self-Portrait in Ink / Bruce Beasley

Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser / Lucie Brock-Broido

Self-Portrait as Mosquito / David Francis

Self-Portrait, Double Exposed / Joanie Mackowski

Self-Portrait as Angler's Damselfly / Cecily Parks

Self-Portrait / Kiki Petrosino

Self-Portrait as the Labors of Samson / Melissa Range

Self-Portrait at Treeline / Anna V. Q. Ross

Keel Bone / R. T. Smith

Self-Portrait as Beast / Frances Justine Post

PLACE

Self-Portrait as L.A. / Allison Geller

Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City / Jennifer Grotz

Update on J / Joan Naviyuk Kane

Self-Portrait, Jackson / James Kimbrell

At Last the New Arriving / Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Self-Portrait at Twenty / Gregory Orr

The Sea, The Forest / Carl Phillips

Self-Portrait in the New World Order / Reginald Shepherd

Self-Portrait / Afaa Michael Weaver

Self-Portrait in the Convex Bumper of a Ford Woody / Roger Weingarten

EKPHRASIS

Frida Kahlo Tattoo / Kelli Russell Agodon

from "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" / John Ashbery

from "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2" / Paul Legault

A Cultural Artifact / Jenna Le

Self-Portrait as Van Gogh / Peter Cooley

Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain's Muse / Elizabeth Knapp

Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt / Jane Hirshfield

Self-Portrait as Vincent Van Gogh in the Asylum at Aries / Roger Reeves

Self-Portrait as David Hockney / David Roderick

Self-Portrait at 38 / Jennifer Tonge

US

I Used to Be but Now I Am / Ted Berrigan

Self-Portrait as Flat / Libby Burton

Self-Portrait as a Chimera / Natalie Diaz

Fifth Grade Autobiography / Rita Dove

Self-Portrait With No Flag / Sana Elhillo

After Before & After / Trace Peterson

Self-Portrait with Family: Evening Before the Funeral / Debra Nystrom

Written By Himself / Gregory Pardlo

Post-Op Overdose / Susannah Nevison

In the Dream / Jenny Johnson

NOBODY

Self-Portrait / Robert Creeley

Self-Portrait in Hydrogen Peroxide / Denise Duhamel

Self-Portrait in Her Inherited Wreck / Natalie Eilbert

Immersion / Alice Fulton

Self-Portrait with Whiskey and Pistol / Jay Hopler

About the Author; or Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry / Dean Rader

Is is / Srikanth Reddy

Self-Portrait Against Red Wallpaper / Richard Siken

Joy Ride / Ron Slate

Giving Myself Up / Mark Strand

POEM

Self-Portrait as the Airplane / Aracelis Girmay

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Poetry / Major Jackson

Self-Portrait as Nancy Drew, Girl Sleuth / Kristy Nielsen

Autobiographia Literaria / Frank O'Hara

A Poet's Poem / Brenda Shaughnessy

I am nothing absolutely. There is this other thing going on. / Brian Teare

Five Skeins / Sarah V. Schweig

Self-Portrait in Binary / P. J. Williams

Self-Portrait as Myself / Meghan O'Rourke

Self-Portrait in 2035 / Charles Wright.

Notes:

"A Karen & Michael Braziller book" -- title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780892555062

0892555068

OCLC:

1102470771