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Bezig met laden... The Oxford Book of American Poetry (editie 2006)door David Lehman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A complete, well edited anthology. Contains the well known and expected, but the minor or lesser known works are of excellent quality and worth remembering. ( ) This new edition is considerably larger than the previous ones, and I've been working on it for a month or so. I discovered some new poets, some old friends, and faithfully slogged through some poems I remembered hating. I was right about them, but one never knows. Poetry, I've found, is very fluid, and poems resonate differently for me through the years. There's no way I feel adequate to review a book on this scale, a book of this scope, except to say that if you like poetry it's certainly worth perusing. If you hate poetry, read the quote by William Matthews below, and be free. The poems new to me with which I fell in love: Amaze by Adelaide Crapsey The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm by Wallace Stevens Before Disaster by Yvor Winters Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden The Lost Children by Randall Jarrell Why Regret by Galway Kinnell The Return by Philip Levine At 65 by Richard Howard Forty Something by Robert Hass Celestial Music and Vespers by Louise Gluck Otherwise by Jane Kenyon Form by Heather McHugh And last, this gem from the blurb about William Matthews "He once observed that most published poems fall into one of four thematic categories: '1. I went out in the woods today and it made me feel, you know, sort of religious. 2. We're not getting any younger. 3. It sure is cold and lonely (a) without you, honey, or (b) with you, honey. 4) Sadness seems but the other side of the coin of happiness, and vice versa, and in any case the coin is too soon spent and on we know not what.'" geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It features the work of more than 200 poets, almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. The book includes not only writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past but highly deserving of attention. Many more women and African-American poets are represented, and unexpected figures such as the musicians Bob Dylan, Patti Smith and Robert Johnson have a place.--From publisher description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)811.008Literature English (North America) American poetry Specific kinds of poetry {only by more than one author} Modified standard subdivisions Collections of literary textsLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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