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Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Ever had an emotion or experience you wanted to express, but didn't know how? This guide encourages teens to find their voices, step up and speak their truths, and articulate what matters to them most--both personally and politically--whether it be boldly to an outside audience or just privately for themselves. Young adults are reading and writing and performing poetry more than ever before, and yet it's the most difficult form for schools to teach....
Series
Best American poetry volume 33
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For this year's volume, guest editor Paisley Rekdal has selected seventy-five thought-provoking, surprising, unsettling, exhilarating poems."--Page 4 of cover.
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is "a 'best' anthology that really lives up to its title" (Chicago Tribune). Since 1988, The Best American Poetry anthology series...
Series
Best American poetry volume 27
Publisher
Scribner Poetry
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Collects poems chosen by editor Terrance Hayes as the best of 2014, featuring 75 poets including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Mary Ruefle and Frederick Seidel.
11) Soldiers don't go mad: a story of brotherhood, poetry, and mental illness during the First World War
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"From the moment war broke out across Europe in 1914, the world entered a new, unparalleled era of modern warfare. Soldiers faced relentless machine gun shelling, incredible artillery power, flame throwers, and gas attacks. Within the first four months of the war, the British Army recorded the nervous collapse of ten percent of its officers; the loss of such manpower to mental illness--not to mention death and physical wounds--left the army unable...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"From the widely acclaimed poet, novelist, critic, and scholar, a lucid and edifying exploration of the building blocks of poetry and how they've been used over the centuries to assemble the most imperishable poems. We treasure our greatest poetry, Brad Leithauser reminds us in these pages, "not for its what but its how." In chapters on everything from iambic pentameter to how stanzas are put together to "rhyme and the way we really talk," Leithauser...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The first appearance of this award-winning writer's work since the 1940s, this collection, which includes an introduction by John Ashbery, restores Joan Murray's striking poetry to its originally intended form. When John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a major influence in an essay in 2003, her sole collection Poems, had been out of print for decades. Joan Murray hit the literary scene as a bright talent in American poetry just before her death of...
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
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Description
A collection of poems arranged in such categories as poems that make you smile, send messages, or share feelings; poems that contain "beats that repeat" or "word play"; and special kinds of poems such as limericks, songs, and haiku.
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