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

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...

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Main Author: Burt, Stephen
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Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction --  |t Paradoxes and Oxymorons (1981) --  |t Tito Madera Smith (1981) --  |t Th e Ride (1982) --  |t My Dream About The Second Coming (1982 / 1987) --  |t Possession (1982) --  |t Songs & Sonnets (1983) --  |t More Music (1984 / 1985) --  |t Saxophone (1984) --  |t Incantation (1984) --  |t Shoe from the Waves (1984) --  |t Lightnin' Blues (1986) --  |t Target (1987) --  |t Facing It (1987 / 1988) --  |t Hamatawk (1988 / 1991) --  |t Domestic Mysticism --  |t Above the Inland Empire today (1989) --  |t Modern Love (1989) --  |t Oh (1990) --  |t December Journal (1990) --  |t The Piano Player Explains Himself (1991) --  |t An Atlas of the Diffi cult World XIII (Dedications) (1991) --  |t Lamium (1992) --  |t Self- Portrait in TyvekTM Windbreaker (1992 / 1995) --  |t Salt (1993 / 1996) --  |t Emptiness (1993) --  |t "A Wooden Eye. An 1884 Silver Dollar. A Homemade Explosive. A Set of False Teeth. And a 14- Karat Gold Ashtray" (1995 / 1998) --  |t Honey Jars of Hair (1995) --  |t Halley's Comet (1995) --  |t Letters to Zanzotto: Letter 3 (1995) --  |t Our Lady of the Snows (1996) --  |t Key Episodes from an Earthly Life (1996) --  |t Blood on the Wheel (1999) --  |t A Song Th at We Still Sing (2001) --  |t Epigraph (2001) --  |t Our Nature (2001) --  |t Race (2001) --  |t A / ppeal A / pple A / dam A / dream (2002) --  |t >>>>>>>> PLEASE FORWARD &>>> (2003) --  |t Tonight (1996 / 2003) --  |t [when he comes he is neither sun nor shade: a china doll] (2004) --  |t Sans Serif --  |t To the Wires Overhead (2005 / 2007) --  |t On Sleep (2005) --  |t Moab (2005 / 2007) --  |t The Blue Terrance (2006) --  |t Futures (2007 / 2008) --  |t Miss Weariness (2007) --  |t Song of the Mortar and Pestle (2008) --  |t Lustron: The House America Has Been Waiting For (2008) --  |t Q Is for the Quick (2009) --  |t Viagra (2009) --  |t The Work horse (2010) --  |t Prescription (2011) --  |t Date: Post Glacial (2012) --  |t Class (2012) --  |t Oversized T-Shirts (2012 / 2013) --  |t Hide-and-Seek with God (2012) --  |t You and your partner go to see the film (2014) --  |t Oulipo (2014) --  |t Weeping (2015) --  |t Sources --  |t Further Reading --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Credits --  |t Index 
520 |a 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 Juan Felipe 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), and poems by prizewinning poets near the start of their careers (such as Brandon Som), and by 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. 
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