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Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry

This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.

cover of Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetryauthor: Dana Gioia
David Mason
Meg Schoerke
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0072414723
binding: Paperback
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Twentieth-Century American Poetry

With the end of the 1900s, the time has come for a thorough assessment of one hundred years of poetry - from the widely acclaimed to the subtly influential - and with an eye to the importance and meaning of poetry in America. Compiled by three poets and poetry scholars - including 2002 American Book Award Winner Dana Gioia - this anthology presents American poetry across the twentieth century from Stephen Crane to Kevin Young.

cover of Twentieth-Century American Poetryauthor: Dana Gioia
David Mason
Meg Schoerke
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0072400196
binding: Paperback
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Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry

WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into a book that teaches as well as inspires. The text also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-color reproductions of great works of art.

cover of Western Wind:  An Introduction to Poetryauthor: David Mason Professor
John Frederick Nims
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0072819596
binding: Paperback
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Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism

Contributors include:Elizabeth AlexanderJulia AlvarezBruce BawerRafael CampoThomas M. DischFrederick FeirsteinDana GioiaEmily GrosholzRobert Samuel GwynnMarilyn HackerRachel HadasAndrew HudginsPaul LakeSydney LeaBrad LeithauserPhillis LevinCharles MartinMarilyn NelsonMolly PeacockWyatt PruntyMary Jo SalterTimothy Reid SteeleFrederick TurnerRachel WetzsteonGreg Williamson

cover of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New FormalismASIN or ISBN-10: 1885266308
binding: Paperback
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Arrivals

Arrivals is the third book of poetry by a master of New Formalism and New Narrative. Winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Mason examines travel, arrival, home."Acrostic from Aegina"Anemones you brought back from the pathNod in a glass beside our rumpled bed.Now you are far away.

cover of Arrivalsauthor: David Mason
ASIN or ISBN-10: 158654036X
binding: Paperback
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The Country I Remember

cover of The Country I Rememberauthor: David Mason
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1885266200
binding: Hardcover
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The Buried Houses (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Library)

cover of The Buried Houses (Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize Library)author: David Mason
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0934257841
binding: Paperback
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Ludlow

Ludlow is a novel in verse that tells the story of a handful of immigrants Greek, Mexican, Scottish, Italian in southern Colorado, climaxing in the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914, in which elements of the Colorado National Guard killed striking miners and family members.

cover of Ludlowauthor: David Mason
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1597090832
binding: Paperback
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Winterproof

Follow-up to her award-winning An Alabaster Flask, Winterproof gathers poems from the author's publications in the United States, England, and internationally in journals including The National Review, The Formalist, and the Australian Salt.

cover of Winterproofauthor: Jennifer Reeser
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1932339817
binding: Paperback
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An Alabaster Flask

The 2003 Word Press First Book Poetry Prize

cover of An Alabaster Flaskauthor: Jennifer Reeser
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0971737177
binding: Paperback
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