โ Armstrong, Karen
๐ Fiction
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๐ Atlas Books/HarperCollins
๐ English
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โฆ LIBER โฆ
American journal: fifty poems for our time
โ Scribed by Tracy K Smith
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A landmark anthology envisioned by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States __
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American Journal presents fifty contemporary poems that explore and celebrate our country and our lives. Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith has gathered a remarkable chorus of voices that ring up and down the registers of American poetry. In the elegant arrangement of this anthology, we hear stories from rural communities and urban centers, laments of loss in war and in grief, experiences of immigrants, outcries at injustices, and poems that honor elders, evoke history, and praise our efforts to see and understand one another. Taking its title from a poem by Robert Hayden, the first African American appointed as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, American Journal investigates our time with curiosity, wonder, and compassion.
Among the fifty poets included are: Jericho Brown, Eduardo C....
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