The poem is you : 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them / Stephen Burt.
The poem is you : 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them / Stephen Burt.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
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G 2017/3595
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English
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vii, 419 pages ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery (1981) -- tito madera smith / Tato Laviera The Ride / Richard Wilbur (1982) -- my dream about the second coming / Lucille Clifton (1982 / 1987) -- Possession / Carla Harryman Songs & sonnets / John Hollander (1983) -- More music / Carl Dennis (1984 / 1985) -- S...
A song that we still sing / Carter Revard (2001) -- Epigraph / Allan Peterson Our nature / Rae Armantrout Race / Elizabeth Alexander A / ppeal A / pple A / dam A / dream / Liz Waldner (2002) -- >>>>>>>> PLEASE FORWARD &>>> / kari edwards (2003) -- Tonight / Agha Shahid Ali (1996 / 2003) -- [when he...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016.
Date Published
2016.
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Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variety--leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of...
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The poem is you : 60 contemporary American poems and how to read them / Stephen Burt.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-396) and index.
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©2016
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G 2017/3595
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74VKVXp8xQQd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVXp8xQQd
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9780674737877
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811/.5409
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991024114117602626