The Poem Is You

60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-674-73787-7
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 765 g

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 Stephanie 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burt, Stephanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Burt, Stephanie
Stephanie Burt is the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including <i>Super Gay Poems</i> and <i>Don’t Read Poetry.</i> A past judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she served as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes regularly for the <i>New York Times Book Review,</i> the <i>New Yorker, London Review of Books,</i> the <i>New York Review of Books, Raritan,</i> and other publications. She is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University.