| The Heart of American Poetry Contributor(s): Hirsch, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598537261 ISBN-13: 9781598537260 Publisher: Library of America OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Poetry | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 809.1 |
| LCCN: 2021946932 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.70 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An acclaimed poet offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of American poetry We live in time of searching. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience from the beginning? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us. Now, in celebration of Library of America's 40th anniversary, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems, ranging from Anne Bradstreet's The Author to Her Book and Phillis Wheatley's To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works to Garrett Hongo's Ancestral Graves, Kahuku and Joy Harjo's Rabbit Is Up to Tricks to explore how these poems have shaped his own life and how they might uplift our life as the diverse nation we have become. |