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Twentieth-century American poetics : poets on the art of poetry
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Twentieth-century American poetics : poets on the art of poetry

Author: Dana Gioia; David Mason; Meg Schoerke
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dana Gioia; David Mason; Meg Schoerke
ISBN: 0072414723 9780072414721
OCLC Number: 51879631
Description: xiii, 528 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Preface to The book of American Negro poetry / James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) --
The sound of sense ; The figure a poem makes / Robert Frost (1874-1963) --
Preface to Some Imagist poets / Amy Lowell (1874-1925) --
Composition as explanation / Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) --
The noble rider and the sound of words / Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) --
A new measure ; The poem as a field of action / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) --
A retrospect ; How to read / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) --
Poetry, Gongorism, and a thousand years / Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) --
Idiosyncrasy and technique / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) --
Reflections on Vers Libre ; Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) --
The springs of poetry / Louise Bogan (1897-1970) --
General aims and theories / Hart Crane (1899-1932) --
Tension in poetry / Allen Tate (1899-1979) --
Foreword to The testament of a stone / Yvor Winters (1900-1968) --
The Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) --
An objective / Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978) --
Disengagement: the art of the Beat Generation / Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) --
Projective verse / Charles Olson (1910-1970) --
The problem of form / J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985) --
Introduction to Kaleidoscope: poems by Negro poets / Robert Hayden (1913-1980) --
from The life of poetry / Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) --
The obscurity of the poet / Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) --
Some arguments against good diction / William Stafford (1914-1993) --
The new Black / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) --
The homosexual in society / Robert Duncan (1919-1988) --
Some notes on organic form / Denise Levertov (1923-1997) --
Reflections on narrative poetry / Louis Simpson (b. 1923) --
Meters and memory / Donald Justice (b. 1925) --
On spoken poetry / Jack Spicer (1925-1965) --
A wrong turning in American poetry / Robert Bly (b. 1926) --
To define ; Poems are a complex / Robert Creeley (b. 1926) --
Personism: a manifesto / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) --
The invisible avant-garde / John Ashbery (b. 1927) --
On open form / W.S. Merwin (b. 1927) --
Poetry and ambition / Donald Hall (b. 1928) --
"When we dead awaken": writing as re-vision / Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) --
Bilingual/Bilingüe / Rhina Espaillat (b. 1932) --
Writing as a woman / Anne Stevenson (b. 1933) --
Negative capability and its children / Charles Simic (b. 1938) --
"What about all this ... ": speculations on poetry and my relationship to it / Jack Foley (b. 1940) --
Responsibilities of the poet / Robert Pinsky (b. 1940) --
The rejection of closure / Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941) --
Disruption, hesitation, silence / Louise Glück (b. 1944) --
The rhapsodic fallacy / Mary Kinzie (b. 1944) --
The scarlet crewer and the voice of the colonized / Shirley Geok-lin Lim (b. 1944) --
The political economy of poetry / Ron Silliman (b. 1946) --
Tradition and revolution: the modern movement and free verse / Timothy Steele (b. 1948) --
So much depends / Julia Alvarez (b. 1950) --
Can poetry matter? / Dana Gioia (b. 1950) --
Four of five motions toward a poetics / William Logan (b. 1950) --
A black rainbow: modern Afro-American poetry / Rita Dove (b. 1952) and Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946) --
Of formal, free, and fractal verse: singing the body eclectic / Alice Fulton (b. 1952) --
A piece of prose / Christian Wiman (b. 1966).
Responsibility: edited by Dana Gioia, David Mason, Meg Schoerke ; with D.C. Stone.
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