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THE PENGUIN ANTHOLOGY OF 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY.
by Dove, Rita, editor. David St. John, signed
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in orange cloth with copper lettering, no dust jacket as issued./orange cloth with copper lettering, no
- ISBN 10
- 0143106430
- ISBN 13
- 9780143106432
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About This Item
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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- Title
- THE PENGUIN ANTHOLOGY OF 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY.
- Author
- Dove, Rita, editor. David St. John, signed
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in orange cloth with copper lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
- Jacket Condition
- orange cloth with copper lettering, no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0143106430
- ISBN 13
- 9780143106432
- Publisher
- Penguin,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2011)
- Keywords
- anthology,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry Anthology;
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