Personal Best (eBook)

Makers on Their Poems that Matter Most

Erin Belieu, Carl Phillips (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
Copper Canyon Press (Verlag)
978-1-61932-284-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is home to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays that explain how and why each poet chose a poem as their personal best. The anthology offers a provocative and surprising range of responses in which readers will find poetic context for the life of a poem and revelatory insight into the unique, personal experiences that shape the writing process itself. Including works from a wide variety of voices both new and well-established, Personal Best is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today. The anthology gives readersboth long-time fans of poetry and those just discovering its possibilitiesan intimate view of the heart and spirit that make poetry one of our most quintessentially human forms of expression.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Anthology • Contemporary • craft • Criticism • Experimental • Form • Gender • History • LGBTQ • National Book Award • Pandemic • personal essay • Place • Poetry • Politics • Pulitzer Prize • Sexuality • Traditional • Translation • underrepresented voices • Violence • Voice • Women poets • writers of color
• ISBN-10: 1-61932-284-6 / 1619322846
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-284-4 / 9781619322844