The State of the Art : A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014 / David Lehman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehman, David, 1948-

Series:

Pitt Poetry Series

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book collects all twenty-nine forewords from The Best American Poetry series. Beginning with a new introduction by David Lehman and a foreword by poet Denise Duhamel (guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013), the collection conveys a sense of American poetry in the making, year by year, over the course of a quarter of a century"-- Provided by publisher.

"The acclaimed annual, The Best American Poetry, is the most prestigious showcase of new poetry in the United States and Canada. Each year since the series began in 1988, David Lehman has contributed a foreword, and this has evolved into a sort of state-of-the-art address that surveys new developments and explores various matters facing poets and their readers today. This book collects all twenty-nine forewords (including the two written for the retrospective "Best of the Best" volumes for the tenth and twenty-fifth anniversaries.) Beginning with a new introduction by Lehman and a foreword by poet Denise Duhamel (guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013), the collection conveys a sense of American poetry in the making, year by year, over the course of a quarter of a century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword by Denise Duhamel; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1988. "like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo"; 1989. in an unlit alcove where bookstore patrons fear to tread; 1990. to inflame passions, disturb the complacent, and arouse the anxiety of despots; 1991. a poem entitled "Cigarettes" by a poet named Ash; 1992. The question of poetry and its audience; 1993. the gust of fresh air that turned into the blizzard of '93; 1994. It's safe to say that the inaugural was the best-attended poetry reading of the decade

1995. At least somebody played ball in 19941996. a given volume in this series might hang question marks over all three terms in the title; 1997. As a gimmick, if that's what it is, National Poetry Month worked; The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997 (1998). The debate is joined; 1998. The president spoke of having had to memorize 100 lines of Macbeth; 1999. "Whitman rocks"; 2000. "Now I know how poems feel"; 2001. "Everybody else was analog and Nietzsche was digital"; 2002. The day now marks a boundary; 2003. "How many people have to die before you can become president?"

2004. canons do not remain fixed for long2005. the creative writing workshop [and] the fall of civilization; 2006. Accessibility-as a term and, implicitly, as a value; 2007. Undoubtedly the most parodied of all poems; 2008. Who says that hot poems can't get you into trouble in 2008?; 2009. "that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry"; 2010. McChrystal sent copies of "The Second Coming" to his special operators; 2011. in Dickinson's brain, "wider than the sky"; 2012. the "uncanny" is a category too little invoked

The Best of the Best American Poetry, 25th Anniversary Edition (2013). "Every time I read Pessoa I think"2013. It was his poetry that kept him going; 2014. In the antagonism between science and the humanities; Index of Names

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

905378100