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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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Online Access: Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author: Burt, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
American poetry
1900-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Paradoxes and Oxymorons (1981)
  • Tito Madera Smith (1981)
  • Th e Ride (1982)
  • My Dream About The Second Coming (1982 / 1987)
  • Possession (1982)
  • Songs & Sonnets (1983)
  • More Music (1984 / 1985)
  • Saxophone (1984)
  • Incantation (1984)
  • Shoe from the Waves (1984)
  • Lightnin' Blues (1986)
  • Target (1987)
  • Facing It (1987 / 1988)
  • Hamatawk (1988 / 1991)
  • Domestic Mysticism
  • Above the Inland Empire today (1989)
  • Modern Love (1989)
  • Oh (1990)
  • December Journal (1990)
  • The Piano Player Explains Himself (1991)
  • An Atlas of the Diffi cult World XIII (Dedications) (1991)
  • Lamium (1992)
  • Self- Portrait in TyvekTM Windbreaker (1992 / 1995)
  • Salt (1993 / 1996)
  • Emptiness (1993)
  • "A Wooden Eye. An 1884 Silver Dollar. A Homemade Explosive. A Set of False Teeth. And a 14- Karat Gold Ashtray" (1995 / 1998)
  • Honey Jars of Hair (1995)
  • Halley's Comet (1995)
  • Letters to Zanzotto: Letter 3 (1995)
  • Our Lady of the Snows (1996)
  • Key Episodes from an Earthly Life (1996)
  • Blood on the Wheel (1999)
  • A Song Th at We Still Sing (2001)
  • Epigraph (2001)
  • Our Nature (2001)
  • Race (2001)
  • A / ppeal A / pple A / dam A / dream (2002)
  • >>>>>>>> PLEASE FORWARD &>>> (2003)
  • Tonight (1996 / 2003)
  • [when he comes he is neither sun nor shade: a china doll] (2004)
  • Sans Serif
  • To the Wires Overhead (2005 / 2007)
  • On Sleep (2005)
  • Moab (2005 / 2007)
  • The Blue Terrance (2006)
  • Futures (2007 / 2008)
  • Miss Weariness (2007)
  • Song of the Mortar and Pestle (2008)
  • Lustron: The House America Has Been Waiting For (2008)
  • Q Is for the Quick (2009)
  • Viagra (2009)
  • The Work horse (2010)
  • Prescription (2011)
  • Date: Post Glacial (2012)
  • Class (2012)
  • Oversized T-Shirts (2012 / 2013)
  • Hide-and-Seek with God (2012)
  • You and your partner go to see the film (2014)
  • Oulipo (2014)
  • Weeping (2015)
  • Sources
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits
  • Index

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