american poetry

Collects essays, graphic book reviews, biographical prose poems, and nonfiction sketches by famous and lesser-known poets surveying American poetry in the twentieth century.

Presents 133 of the world's most famous poems performed and artistically interpreted by the First Poetry Quartet and celebrity guests.

"Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated writers"--.

"How about a book that makes you barge into your boss's office to read a page of poetry from? That you dream of? That every movie, song, book, moment that follows continues to evoke in some way? The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking".

An illustrated edition of the nineteenth-century poem, later set to music, celebrating the beauty of America.

Contains critical essays on contemporary poetry most studied in high schools and colleges.

Provides a critical introduction to American Indian poetry.

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that explore twenty-one recurring themes in the history of American poetry, with discussion of representative poems in each category, and bibliographic information.