The new American poetry of engagement : a 21st century anthology / edited by Ann Keniston and Jeffrey Gray.

"This anthology offers a comprehensive look at contemporary American poetry, demonstrating that poets are moving at once toward a new engagement with public concerns and toward a focus on the problems of representation. A detailed introduction by the editors along with statements by many of the...

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Other Authors: Keniston, Ann, 1961-, Gray, Jeffrey, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, NC : McFarland & Co., ©2012.
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505 0 |a Introduction : Saying what happened in the 21st century -- Rae Armantrout : New ; Previews ; Bubble wrap ; Action poem -- Frank Bidart : Curse ; The soldier who guards the frontier ; To the republic ; Inauguration day -- Robert Bly : Call and answer ; Let sympathy pass ; The stew of discontents ; Those being eaten ; Here the sleepers sleep -- Bruce Bond : The altars of September ; Flag ; Ringtone -- Joel Brouwer : Lines from the reports of the investigative committees -- Timothy Donnelly : Partial inventory of airborne debris ; Dream of Arabian hillbillies -- Carolyn Forché : The ghost of Heaven -- Katie Ford : Flee ; Earth ; Fish market ; The vessel bends the water -- Forrest Gander : Background check -- Peter Gizzi : Protest song -- Louise Glück : October -- Albert Goldbarth : Some common terms in Latin that are larger than our lives -- Kenneth Goldsmith : "A1" from The day -- Jorie Graham : Little exercise ; Praying (Attempt of June 14 '03) ; Guantánamo ; Employment -- Linda Gregerson : Sweet ; Father Mercy, Mother Tongue ; Still life ; The selvage -- Eamon Grennan : Y2K -- Marilyn Hacker : Letter to Hayden Carruth ; From Names ; Ghazal: min al-hobbi m'a qatal -- Forrest Hamer : Aftermath ; What happened ; Conference -- Robert Hass : I am your waiter tonight and my name is Dmitri ; Ezra Pound's Proposition ; On visiting the DMZ at Panmunjom : a haibun ; Some of David's story -- Bob Hicok : Happy anniversary ; Full flight ; Troubled times ; In the loop ; Stop-loss -- Brenda Hillman : From Nine untitled epyllions ; Reportorial poetry, trance & activism ; In a Senate Armed Services hearing ; Request to the Berkeley City Council concerning Strawberry Creek ; In high desert under the drones -- Galway Kinnell : When the towers fell -- Yusef Komunyakaa : From "Love in the time of war" ; Grenade ; The towers ; Heavy metal soliloquy ; The warlord's garden ; Surge ; Clouds -- Maxine Kumin : Extraordinary rendition ; On reading The age of innocence in a troubled time ; Entering houses at night ; Still we take joy ; Just deserts -- Ann Lauterbach : Victory ; Hum ; Echo revision -- Ben Lerner : Didactic elegy -- Timothy Liu : Ready-mades ; Vita Breva ; Beauty ; Elegy for Oum Kolsoum written across the sky -- John Matthias : Column I, tablet XIII -- J.D. McClatchy : Jihad -- Raymond McDaniel : Assault to Abjury ; Sen Jak's advice to the tropically depressed -- Sandra McPherson : On being transparent: Cedar Rapids Airport -- W.S. Merwin : To the light of September ; To the words ; To the grass of autumn ; To ashes ; To the coming winter -- Philip Metres : From "Hung lyres" ; Asymmetries ; Testimony ; Compline ; From "Homefront/removes" -- Naomi Shihab Nye : Dictionary in the dark ; Interview, Saudi Arabia ; I never realized they had aspirations like ours -- Geoffrey O'Brien : A history -- Sharon Olds : September, 2001 -- Robert Pinsky : Poem of disconnected parts ; The forgetting ; The anniversary -- Kevin Prufer : National anthem ; Dead soldier ; Those who could not flee ; Recent history ; God bless our troops -- Claudia Rankine : From Don't let me be lonely: an American lyric : "Cornel West makes the point" ; "Timothy McVeigh died at 7:14 a.m." -- Donald Revell : Given days ; Vietnam epic treatment ; Election year -- Frederick Seidel : God exploding ; The black-eyed virgins ; Eurostar ; Song : "The swollen river overthrows its banks" ; The Bush administration -- Hugh Seidman : Found poem: Microloans ; Thinking of Baghdad -- Lisa Sewell : The anatomy of melancholy -- Susan Stewart : When I'm crying, I'm not speaking ; When I'm speaking, I'm not crying ; Elegy against the massacre at the Amish school in West Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, autumn 2006 -- David Wagoner : In rubble -- C.K. Williams : War ; Fear ; The future ; Cassandra, Iraq ; Lies -- Eleanor Wilner : Found in the free library ; In a time of war ; Back then, we called it "The war" ; The show must go on ; Rendition, with flag ; Colony collapse disorder (CCD) -- C.D. Wright : From Rising, falling, hovering: "He slept with the dead then" ; "One bright night" ; "I was just thinking" -- Robert Wrigley : Exxon -- The poets : profiles and statements. 
520 |a "This anthology offers a comprehensive look at contemporary American poetry, demonstrating that poets are moving at once toward a new engagement with public concerns and toward a focus on the problems of representation. A detailed introduction by the editors along with statements by many of the poets add depth and context to the book."--Publisher information. 
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