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The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry Hardcover - 2011
by Rita Dove (Editor)
Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century.
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-from styles and voices to themes and cultures-while balancing important poems with significant periods of each poet. Featuring poems both classic and contemporary, this collection reflects both a dynamic and cohesive portrait of modern American poetry and outlines its trajectory over the past century.
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Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century.
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-from styles and voices to themes and cultures-while balancing important poems with significant periods of each poet. Featuring poems both classic and contemporary, this collection reflects both a dynamic and cohesive portrait of modern American poetry and outlines its trajectory over the past century.
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- Title The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry
- Author Rita Dove (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 599
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 2011-10-25
- ISBN 9780143106432 / 0143106430
- Weight 2.08 lbs (0.94 kg)
- Dimensions 9.49 x 6.4 x 1.31 in (24.10 x 16.26 x 3.33 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011036342
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.508
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"The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry has the solid, respectable, upright feel of a book bound for the syllabuses of myriad college courses. But it also has enough surprises to make it ideal for the rest of us too. It belongs on the bedside table as well as in a backpack."
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New York:: Penguin,, (2011). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in orange cloth with copper lettering, no dust jacket as issued.. First printing. An anthology edited and with an introduction by award winning poet Rita Dove, former U .S. Poet Laureate. Elizabeth Alexander commented that this is "intelligent, generous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read . . [it] gets at the extraordinary accomplishment and range of multi-vocal American poetry in the century. Dove's selection - and this book - will long stand as the definitive anthology of American poetry." The authors - from Edgar Lee Masters to Paul Laurence Dunbar, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros to Kevin Young and Terrence Hayes - are listed chronologically by their birthdates - and each entry is preceded by a brief biographical note. SIGNED by David St. John at his contribution "Iris." Illustrated endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. lii, 599 pp
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