The Poem Is You : 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burt, Stephanie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variety--leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline making urgency of Claudia Rankine's Citizen to the stark pathos of Louise Glück, the limitless energy of J. F. Herrera, and the erotic provocations of D. A. Powell. The Poem Is You: Sixty Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them is a guide to the diverse magnificences of American poetry today. It presents a wide range of poems selected by Burt for this volume, each accompanied by an original essay explaining how a given poem works, why it matters, and how the poem speaks to other parts of art and culture. Included here are some classroom classics (by Ashbery, Komunyakaa, Hass), less famous poems by very famous poets (Glück, Kay Ryan), prizewinning poets near the start of their careers (such as Brandon Som), and others who are not--or not yet--well known. The Poem Is You will appeal to poets, teachers, and students, but it is intended especially for readers who want to learn more about contemporary American poetry but who have not known where or how to start. It describes what American poets have fashioned for one another, and what they can give us today. --

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. John Ashbery, Paradoxes and Oxymorons (1981)

Chapter 2. Tato Laviera, tito madera smith (1981)

Chapter 3. Richard Wilbur, The Ride (1982)

Chapter 4. Lucille Clifton, my dream about the second coming (1982 / 1987)

Chapter 5. Carla Harryman, Possession (1982)

Chapter 6. John Hollander, Songs &amp

Sonnets (1983)

Chapter 7. Carl Dennis, More Music (1984 / 1985)

Chapter 8. Liam Rector, Saxophone (1984)

Chapter 9. Czesław Miłosz, trans. Robert Pinsky and Czesław Miłosz, Incantation (1984)

Chapter 10. Robert Grenier, Shoe from the Waves (1984)

Chapter 11. Rita Dove, Lightnin' Blues (1986)

Chapter 12. A. R. Ammons, Target (1987)

Chapter 13. Yusef Komunyakaa, Facing It (1987 / 1988)

Chapter 14. Diane Glancy, Hamatawk (1988 / 1991)

Chapter 15. Lucie Brock- Broido, Domestic Mysticism (1988)

Chapter 16. Killarney Clary, Above the Inland Empire today (1989)

Chapter 17. John Yau, Modern Love (1989)

Chapter 18. Robert Creeley, Oh (1990)

Chapter 19. Charles Wright, December Journal (1990)

Chapter 20. Allen Grossman, The Piano Player Explains Himself (1991)

Chapter 21. Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World XIII (Dedications) (1991)

Chapter 22. Louise Glück, Lamium (1992)

Chapter 23. James Merrill, Self-Portrait in TyvekTM Windbreaker (1992 / 1995)

Chapter 24. Linda Gregerson, Salt (1993 / 1996)

Chapter 25. Kay Ryan, Emptiness (1993)

Chapter 26. Albert Goldbarth, "A Wooden Eye. An 1884 Silver Dollar. A Homemade Explosive. A Set of False Teeth. And a 14-Karat Gold Ashtray" (1995 / 1998)

Chapter 27. Harryette Mullen, honey jars of hair (1995)

Chapter 28. Stanley Kunitz, Halley's Comet (1995)

Chapter 29. Michael Palmer, Letters to Zanzotto: Letter 3 (1995).

Chapter 30. Robert Hass, Our Lady of the Snows (1996)

Chapter 31. C. D. Wright, Key Episodes from an Earthly Life (1996)

Chapter 32. Juan Felipe Herrera, Blood on the Wheel (1999)

Chapter 33. Carter Revard, A Song That We Still Sing (2001)

Chapter 34. Allan Peterson, Epigraph (2001)

Chapter 35. Rae Armantrout, Our Nature (2001)

Chapter 36. Elizabeth Alexander, Race (2001)

Chapter 37. Liz Waldner, A / ppeal A / pple A / dam A / dream (2002)

Chapter 38. kari edwards, &gt

&gt

PLEASE FORWARD &amp

(2003)

Chapter 39. Agha Shahid Ali, Tonight (1996 / 2003)

Chapter 40. D. A. Powell, [when he comes he is neither sun nor shade: a china doll] (2004)

Chpater 41. Angie Estes, Sans Serif (2005)

Chapter 42. W. S. Merwin, To the Wires Overhead (2005 / 2007)

Chapter 43. Bernadette Mayer, On Sleep (2005)

Chapter 44. Donald Revell, Moab (2005 / 2007)

Chapter 45. Terrance Hayes, The Blue Terrance (2006)

Chapter 46. Jorie Graham, Futures (2007 / 2008)

Chapter 47. Laura Kasischke, Miss Weariness (2007)

Chapter 48. Frank Bidart, Song of the Mortar and Pestle (2008)

Chapter 49. Robyn Schiff, Lustron: The House America Has Been Waiting For (2008)

Chapter 50. Mary Jo Bang, Q Is for the Quick (2009)

Chapter 51. Lucia Perillo, Viagra (2009)

Chapter 52. Melissa Range, The Workhorse (2010)

Chapter 53. Joseph Massey, Prescription (2011)

Chapter 54. dg nanouk okpik, Date: Post Glacial (2012)

Chapter 55. Rosa Alcalá, Class (2012)

Chapter 56. Gabby Bess, Oversized T- Shirts (2012 / 2013)

Chapter 57. Brenda Shaughnessy, Hide-and-Seek with God (2012)

Chapter 58. Claudia Rankine, You and your partner go to see the film (2014)

Chapter 59. Brandon Som, Oulipo (2014)

Chapter 60. Ross Gay, Weeping (2015)

Sources.

Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780674972872

0674972872

OCLC:

1306056360