The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets Contributor(s): Yezzi, David (Editor), McClatchy, J. D. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0804011214 ISBN-13: 9780804011211 Publisher: Swallow Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
Dewey: 811.608 |
LCCN: 2009023277 |
Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.56" W x 8.48" (1.07 lbs) 376 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently begun to make an important mark on contemporary poetry, and their accomplishment and influence will only grow with time. The poets gathered here do not constitute a school or movement; rather they are a group of unique artists working at the top of their craft. As editor David Yezzi writes in his introduction, "Here is a group of writers who have, perhaps for the first time since the modernist revolution of the early twentieth century, returned to a happy d tente between warring camps. This, I think, is a new--at least in our age--kind of poet, who, dissatisfied with the climate of extremes, has found a balance between innovation and received form, perceiving the terror beneath the classical and the unities girding romanticism. This new unified sensibility is no watered-down admixture, no pragmatic compromise worked out in departments of creative writing, but, rather, the vital spirit behind some of the most accomplished poetry being written by America's new poets." |