Looking for Your Name: A Collection of Contemporary Poems [Library Binding]

Paul B. Janeczko (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1993

In an anthology of contemporary poetry, eighty-six poets explore issues ranging from pacifism to matrimonial trouble, the massacre at Tiananmen Square to styrofoam, unemployment to El Salvador.

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An exceptional 112 American poems on serious themes, written by nearly 90 different poets and assembled by a lauded anthologist and poet (Brickyard Summer, 1989). We're told that the collection began as ``an exploration of `conflict' ''; most of the poems contrast themes and images (beauty and horror, fragility and tenacity) or express mixed feelings (love and loss, nostalgia and regret, pity and anger). A few are frankly celebratory (``Ice Hockey'') or comic (``The Belt Buckle''). The volume is divided into two sections corresponding roughly to ``private'' and ``public'' experience: death, love (including lesbian and gay), athletics, and nature in the first; economic issues, violence, war (especially Vietnam), and family in the second. A garish, surreal jacket, incorporating disparate symbols, does little justice to the richness and complexity within. Fully indexed. (Poetry. 12+) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
  
• Library Binding
• Publisher: Orchard Books (NY) (April 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0531086259
• ISBN-13: 978-0531086254
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,108,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book of poetry, September 23, 2004

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This review is from: Looking for Your Name: A Collection of Contemporary Poems (Library Binding)

I first found this book in my highschool library... and much as I love librarys I "lost it" and had to pay for it. Since then I have gone back to read it at least twice a year. These poems will stick in your head and when you least expect it be brought floating back up again. Some leave you laughing, some may leave you crying. It's a mix. One you won't ever forget.