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American Literature

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Radical Poetics

Essays on Literature & Culture

By Khadijah Queen
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Expanding theoretical practice to return radicality to its original meaning from the Latin—forming a root

Geographies of Relation

Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas

By Theresa Delgadillo
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century Literature, Latin American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

How diaspora and borderlands subjects from across the Americas have represented and performed their interrelationship

How to Draw a Circle

On Reading and Writing

By Dan Beachy-Quick
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An examination of what binds poetic endeavor into a singular, shining whole

A Beat Beyond

Selected Prose of Major Jackson

By Major Jackson
Edited by Amor Kohli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Race and Ethnicity, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Foregrounding the possibilities of human song

The Glass House

The Life of Theodore Roethke

By Allan Seager
Subjects: Biography, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature

The first detailed biography of this renowned American poet

Collected Prose

By Robert Hayden
Edited by Frederick Glaysher
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays on poetry and the experiences that influenced this poet

The Spiral of Memory

Interviews

By Joy Harjo
Edited by Laura Coltelli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Native American Studies, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Intimate, illuminating conversations with one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry

Condition Red

Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries

By Yusef Komunyakaa
Edited by Radiclani Clytus
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, African American Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A new prose collection by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry Los Angeles

Reading the Essential Poems of the City

By Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, 20th Century Literature, American Studies

A look at the poetry of one of America’s most populous and fascinating cities, with poems spanning from 1942 to 2012

The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry

By Howard Rambsy
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, American Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A closer look at the poets and publishers who made the Black Arts Movement such an enduring cultural enterprise

Two Minds of a Western Poet

By David Mason
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet

Fables of Representation

Essays

By Paul Hoover
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Pointed essays and an interview from one of contemporary literature's most engaging critics, poets, and editors

Coming After

Essays on Poetry

By Alice Notley
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Essay and Interview, Gender Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of critical pieces by acclaimed poet Alice Notley, author of Mysteries of Small Houses and Disobedience

Set in Motion

Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues

By A. R. Ammons
Edited by Zofia Burr
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Poets on Poetry

Prose reflections on the nature, nuances, and undiminished importance of poetry

The Hopwood Lectures

Edited by Nicholas Delbanco
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, 20th Century Literature, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A selection of Hopwood lectures delivered during ten annual awards ceremony, including work by Charles Baxter, Mary Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan, Susan Stamberg, and others

The Stamp of Class

Reflections on Poetry and Social Class

By Gary Lenhart
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Cultural Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Class Studies

Thoughtfully investigates the important yet little-heralded topic of the effect of class on the poet's life and work

Atlas

Selected Essays, 1989-2007

By Alfred Corn
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

A collection of essays from one of the most accomplished poets of his generation on a wide variety of subjects, from Elizabeth Bishop to Virginia Woolf and Wordsworth

Charles Simic

Essays on the Poetry

Edited by Bruce Weigl
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism
Series: Under Discussion

New perspectives on the work of this original and hard-to-categorize American poet, recently named Poet Laureate of the United States

Poet's Work, Poet's Play

Essays on the Practice and the Art

Edited by Daniel Tobin & Pimone Triplett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature

An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry

You Work Tomorrow

An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41

Edited by John Marsh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, History, Labor History, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

The first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression

On Frank Bidart

Fastening the Voice to the Page

Edited by Liam Rector & Tree Swenson
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Under Discussion

Essays that explore the art and craft of Frank Bidart's poetry, with an interview with the poet

Memory Piano

By Charles Simic
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

An eclectic array of essays, reviews, and memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic

The Hopwood Awards

75 Years of Prized Writing

Edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Michael Barrett, and Andrea Beauchamp
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Fiction

Collects poetry and prose by renowned writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan

The Hopwood Awards

75 Years of Prized Writing

Edited by Michael Barrett, Andrea Beauchamp, and Nicholas Delbanco
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Fiction

Collects poetry and prose by renowned writers who won Hopwood Awards when they were students at the University of Michigan

Gathering Ground

A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade

Edited by Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, and Camille Thornton Dungy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, American Literature

A collection from the first ten years of Cave Canem, including work by many leading faculty and the winners of the annual Cave Canem first-book prize

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