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Series
Library of America volume 178
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xxiii, 952 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
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Library of America volume 187
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xx, 1,042 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains the collected works of American author and poet, John Ashbery, along with sixty uncollected poems, from 1956-1987.
With this volume The Library of America inaugurates a collected edition of the works of America's preeminent living poet. Long associated with the New York School that came to the fore in the 1950s, John Ashbery has charted a profoundly original course that has opened up pathways for subsequent generations of poets. At once...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 240
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 852 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Library of America volume 241
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xvii, 679 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oracular and elegant, W. S. Merwin's poetry reveals a heightened sense of what is essential to human consciousness: the fragile framing of nature, the mysteries of memory and perception, the inescapable fact of our mortality. In a career spanning seven decades- from his brilliant emergence as the winner of the Yale Younger Poets' Prize in 1952 to his recent term as U.S. Poet Laureate-he has fashioned a poetics unmistakably his own, marked by a stripped-down,...
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Series
Library of America volume 301
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xix, 819 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
lx, 1,110 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
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