This landmark volume collects a decade's worth of work from the American Book Awards, and in the process redefines our sense of what constitutes the "mainstream" of American poetry. Includes the work of more than 50 poets on a wide range of themes, diction and geographical origins.
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A Wonderful View of Alternate Voices in American Poetry,
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This review is from: The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology (Paperback)
This book is quite simply one of the best ways to see a complete picture of what America is by way of poetry. Even though the selected poetry is obviously limited to the Before Columbus Foundation Book Awards, the selections are wonderful. This fact only validitates the necessity and power of the book series and the extremely woderful editing of the anthology. What's more, the editors take turns in introducing the poets and their poetry.As someone who grew up in rural Utah, I did not readily take the opportunity to read a varied set of voices. When I bought this book while I was in the Army, I felt that I truly began my education in reading multi-cultural voices in poetry. I had heard names like Allen Ginsberg and Amiri Baraka (both included in this anthology) but suddenly I was reading Larry Neal, Ai, Etheridge Knight, Tato Laviera, and Jayne Cortez. My favorite selections from this book are from the poets Larry Neal, Etheridge Knight, Amiri Baraka, and Frank Stanford. Each poem from these selections (and really the whole book) is powerful and essential to the education of Americans. My copy of this book is dog eared and worn because even after eight years I still read from it at least once a week. If you can get a copy of this book, do it.
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The poet Ai brings a bold and distinctive voice to contemporary American poetry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
transcendental vision, delta praise, eye solo, holes sewn, street poems, porkpie hat Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Larry Neal, Native American, Coyote Man, Jayne Cortez, United States, Susan Howe, Maurice Kenny, Peter Blue Cloud, Charles Olson, Tato Laviera, Amiri Baraka, University of California, Robert Kelly, Sonia Sanchez, Puerto Rican, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Quincy Troupe, Leslie Scalapino, Closer Aunt, San Francisco, Allen Ginsberg, American Book Award, Gary Snyder, Hilton Obenzinger Browse Sample Pages:
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