American Poetry
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A Spicing of Birds [Hardback]
Jo Miles Schuman (Editor); Joanna Bailey Hodgman (Editor); Emily Dickinson (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819570697
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
A Spicing of Birds is a unique and beautifully illustrated anthology, pairing poems from one of America's most revered poets with evocative classic ornithological art. Emily Dickinson had a great love of birds-in her collected poems, birds are men... .... Learn More -
Exposition Park [Hardback]
Roberto Tejada (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780819569325
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Imagine a walking tour of stanzas and prose poems that give lyric voice to sight, public speech, and spectacle. In Exhibition Park, Roberto Tejada delivers a command performance in mixed genres that compel an array of literary styles. His poetry u... .... Learn More -
Pleasure Dome [Paperback]
Yusef Komunyakaa (Author)
£21.95ISBN: 9780819567390
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Best known for Neon Vernacular, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994, and for Dien Cai Dau, a collection of poems chronicling his experiences as a journalist in Vietnam, Yusef Komunyakaa has become one of America's most compelling poets... .... Learn More -
The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky [Hardback]
Louis Zukofsky (Author); William Carlos Williams (Author); Barry Ahearn (Editor)
£33.50ISBN: 9780819564900
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Renowned poet William Carlos Williams and literary innovator Louis Zukofsky maintained a relationship through correspondence as both collaborators and friends between 1928 and 1963. Their letters have remained largely unpublished until now. Edited... .... Learn More -
Treadwinds [Paperback]
Walter K. Lew (Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9780819565105
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Since the early 1970s, the Korean American poet and scholar Walter K. Lew has produced innovative works ranging from linked-verse elegies for jazz musicians and multimedia "movietelling" performances to pioneering poetry anthologies and TV documen... .... Learn More -
Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple [Paperback]
Walter Lew (Compiler); Frances Chung (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780819564160
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Frances Chung's poetry stands alone as the most perceptive, aesthetically accomplished, and compassionate depiction of a supposedly impenetrable community during the late 1960s and 70s. Written "For the Chinatown People" and imprinted with Chung's... .... Learn More -
Thieves of Paradise [Paperback]
Yusef Komunyakaa (Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9780819564221
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Centering on the disorienting experiences of the returning soldier and drawing on multiple traditions, Yusef Komunyakaa's poetry is potent, live, and, like the strains of jazz running through it, an erudite and soulful music. .... Learn More -
Tug [Paperback]
Stephen Todd Booker (Author)
£10.95ISBN: 9780819512154
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Stephen Todd Booker, an inmate on Florida's death row, writes piercingly of incarceration. But he also sings, in a voice at once jagged and polished, of racism in Brooklyn and the South and of growing up black in 20th-century America, as he examin... .... Learn More -
Neon Vernacular [Paperback]
Yusef Komunyakaa (Author)
£13.50ISBN: 9780819512116
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
An award-winning poet's testimony of the war in Vietnam. .... Learn More -
Magic City [Paperback]
Yusef Komunyakaa (Author)
£10.95ISBN: 9780819512086
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portrays a child's dawning awareness of the natural and social order around him, rhythms of life in the c... .... Learn More
