A History of American Poetry

DescriptionAfrican American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical hist...

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings ...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the pres...

Reducere. DescriptionUntil now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapid...

Reducere. A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history o...

This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American l...

Description"A signal event in the history of the music." -- Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015)...

Like its highly acclaimed companions, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, this edition is a prime for ...

Reducere. Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee ...

Reducere. A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson ...

Reducere. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebra...

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observer...

Reducere. A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readersNo poet is more e...

This is Stephen Kinzer's dramatic story of the centuries-old power struggle that burst into the headlines in 1979 with the overthrow of the Somoza ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Reenactments, Hai-Dang Phan grapples with the history, memory, and legacy of the Vietnam War from his vantage point as the son of Vie...

Reducere. Celebrate one of the most important periods of American cultural history: the Harlem Renaissance This package features beautiful illustrations, poe...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Women's Studies. Essay. Hybrid Genre. 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Fina...

Reducere. First published in 1858, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" is a narrative poem written by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the 'Mayfl...

Reducere. INTIMATE brilliantly redefines "memoir" by assembling its narratives from divergent sources: the mixed-race marriage of Paisley Rekdal's parents, t...

This guide to Native American history and culture outlines new ways of understanding American Indian cultures in contemporary contexts. Native Amer...

Reducere. For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provoc...

Reducere. Anna Citrino has woven the story of Italian immigrants--their small joys and compelling heartaches--into a moonlit tapestry. Thread by poetic threa...

Reducere. El Zarape Press presents its first collection of poetry by the eclectic Daniel Garc a Ordaz, The Poet Mariachi, "the voice of the Rio Grande Valley...

Reducere. DescriptionCarl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry a...

Reducere. The ultimate subject of Maya C. Popa's stunning debut collection is violence. American Faith begins with its manifestation in our country: a destru...

Reducere. Komunyakaa vividly evokes his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana, once a center of Klan activity, and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts. He portr...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Garcia's third poetry collection, [ELEGIES], centers on love, grief, legacy, racism and...

DescriptionIn its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and ...

Reducere. Named 1 of 6 must-read poetry books in April 2019 by The Millions.The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of h...

DescriptionWinner, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize"We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua's consciousness . . . a smart, sympathetic mind...

Reducere. A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative, " Nathan Huggins' Harlem Ren...

This book contains a classic collection of poetry written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, including one of the best-known American poems "Renascence". ...

Contributor(s): Author: Natasha SajeWindows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside ...

Reducere. Hip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop generation. It ha...

Reducere. DescriptionHip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop genera...

Reducere. DescriptionThese poems consider the history of the Americas and their uncertain future, particularly regarding the danger of climate change, and su...

Reducere. At the time of his death, Ulysses S. Grant was the most famous person in America, considered by most citizens to be equal in stature to George Wash...

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Family reunions are special occasions, a time of connections, reflections, of meeting new members, reme...

Reducere. Description"Bitsui's poetry returns things to their basic elements and voice in a flowing language rife with illuminating images. A great reading e...

A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with an] energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millenni...

Reducere. "Tamez's poetry disturbs the mind with its bravery of language, musical indictments of culture, and profound good heart. She is one of our great ly...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Brandon Shimoda's THE DESERT, a sequel to his William Carlos Williams Award-winning book EVENING ORACLE, gu...

Reducere. DescriptionGarnering awards from Choice, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and the Conference on Christianity and Literature when first publishe...

Reducere. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley w...

Reducere. The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a heali...

The ten essays included in this volume address the themes of immigration, migration, and history in Pasquale Verdicchio's poetry and scholarship. G...

Reducere. Description" Cane] has been reverberating in me to an astonishing degree. I love it passionately; could not possibly exit without it." -- Alice Wal...

Reducere. Poetry. Music. Steve Von Till's poems are lamentations--elegies for the loss of wildness, songs of hope, chants of spirit, and dreams of survival. ...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. California Studies. Film. SAVAGE PAGEANT recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed ...

Reducere. In its time, it was considered the most significant work of American natural history. Coleridge, Emerson, and Wordsworth were fans, and drew from i...

Reducere. Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indi...

Reducere. Prior to statehood, the Llano Estacado, the great plains of northeastern New Mexico and northwestern Texas, were colonized by Hispanic ranchers. Ca...

Reducere. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American playwright, Pulitzer Prize-winning lyrical poet, and feminist activist. One of the most celebra...

Reducere. Long Rain is an exquisite collection of five line poems (tanka) and short prose (haibun), organized around the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire and Wate...

Reducere. For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States. But this has been no ordinary version...

Reducere. First published in 1925, "The New Negro" is Alain Locke's compilation of important works by early twentieth-century African American writers. Exhib...

Reducere. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known f...

Reducere. Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience o...

A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Simone WhitePoetry. African & African American Studies. 2017 Whiting Award Winner for Poetry. "I get this pinwheel relation...

Reducere. A feast for lovers of American literature-the work of our greatest poet, redesigned and relaunched for a new generation of readers No poet is more ...

The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by Nati...

Reducere. The sixth collection in the Seattle Youth Poet Laureate Series, Motherland is a breathtaking exploration of womanhood and blackness framed by famil...

Reducere. This activity book is packed with fascinating facts about the history of Juneteenth and the Black American experience in the USA and shows why they...

Reducere. ``The age of transnational humanities has arrived.`` According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian Studses and America...

Reducere. Description"C.D. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one." --The New York Times"C.D. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-pros...

Reducere. Kimberly Wieser takes us on an expansive journey across mixedblood Indian Americana in this collection of poetry. Home is a place where our surroun...

Reducere. Part natural history, part poetry, Mountains of the Heart is full of hidden gems and less traveled parts of the Appalachian Mountains Stretching al...

Poetry. Dennis Hinrichsen's THIS IS WHERE I LIVE I HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO is a formally adventurous, cinematic collection of poems about everythin...