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American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time (2018)

door Tracy K. Smith

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Fiction. Poetry. HTML: A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities and urban centers, laments of loss in war and in grief, experiences of immigrants, outcries at injustices, and poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another. Taking its title from a poem by Robert Hayden, the first African American appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, American Journal investigates our time with curiosity, wonder, and compassion. Among the fifty poets included are: Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Matthew Dickman, Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Joy Harjo, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Robin Coste Lewis, Ada Límon, Layli Long Soldier, Erika L. Sánchez, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Brian Turner, Charles Wright, and Kevin Young.<… (meer)

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This little anthology sort of took my breath away. Some of the poets were names I knew but most were new to me. One poem that really stood out for me was In Defense of Small Towns by Oliver de la Paz. Written in 2 line stanzas, it is a longish poem and starts out with the narrator hating life in the small town of his past but then each stanza carefully describes a past memory so that you see the evolution of his thoughts until finally the ending describes how he wants to take his son back there to the small town of my youth and ends with,

to run with a cattail in his hand and watch as its seeds
fly weightless as though nothing mattered, as though

the little things we tell ourselves about our pasts stay there,
rising slightly and just out of reach.

I picked up the two books of poetry by de la Paz they had at our local library, [b:Post Subject: A Fable|20522275|Post Subject A Fable|Oliver de la Paz|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1390431791s/20522275.jpg|36714853] and [b:Names Above Houses|21860768|Names Above Houses|Oliver de la Paz|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410771512s/21860768.jpg|77715]. I am looking forward to reading them as well as many other books by poets I discovered in this book.

Definitely find it if you can.

DarrinLett | Aug 14, 2022 |

That was really a quite spectacular collection of poems. They weren't all for me, but I checked the ones that I particularly enjoyed (which were well over half), and now I have a slew of new-to-me poets to check out. (

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LibroLindsay | Jun 18, 2021 |

"…This is why I love poems: they require me to sit still, listen deeply, and imagine putting myself in someone else’s unfamiliar shoes. The world I return to when the poem is over seems fuller and more comprehensible as a result." —- Tracy K. Smith in the introduction.

This small hardcover, a remarkable anthology, contains, as it says, fifty poems. For me, most—but certainly not all—of the poets names were unfamiliar. One might be tempted to read the volume cover to cover, but I’d not suggest that. Every time I open this little volume I see and hear something different. Some of the poems make instant connections while other require a bit sitting with it, if you know what I mean. And there is nothing like reading poetry during difficult times.

My favorite poem in the volume is a lengthy one by Layli Long Soldier titled “38”. It’s a strikingly clever, unusual and ultimately very moving. HERE’S a link to it on the web. Read it more than once. ADDED NOTE: not sure my link to the poem will work here, but if not, just do a web search and you'll find it. (

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Fiction. Poetry. HTML:

A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States

American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities and urban centers, laments of loss in war and in grief, experiences of immigrants, outcries at injustices, and poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another. Taking its title from a poem by Robert Hayden, the first African American appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, American Journal investigates our time with curiosity, wonder, and compassion.

Among the fifty poets included are: Jericho Brown, Natalie Diaz, Matthew Dickman, Mark Doty, Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Joy Harjo, Terrance Hayes, Cathy Park Hong, Marie Howe, Major Jackson, Ilya Kaminsky, Robin Coste Lewis, Ada Límon, Layli Long Soldier, Erika L. Sánchez, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Brian Turner, Charles Wright, and Kevin Young.

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