Starting in 1975, the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets quickly distinguished itself as one of the most important publishing projects of its kind, winning praise from critics and poets alike and ...
Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the rich body of ...
To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its ...
Dozens of modern American poets, vehemently against a possible war with Iraq, posture that their poetry is medicinal, good for the body politic. But others, such as J. Bottum, books and arts ...
Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of ...
Based mostly in universities, these groups have gradually become the primary audience for contemporary verse. Consequently, the energy of American poetry, which was once directed outward ...
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic ...
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted ...
Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry for her 1993 collection Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners, Northwestern University Press has described her poems as a “deliberate ...