Literature by X J Kennedy
/ Organized by genre. (Fiction, Poetry, Drama) / The author's voice brings personal warmth, a human perspective, and a poet's insight to the discussion of literature. / Reflects a balance of classic works, contemporary and non-Western selections. / More theory has been added with the addition of new casebooks and new critical essays. / Writer's Perspectives provides insights from authors on writing and revising and student papers provide models for studying and improving student writing. / New Interactive Edition includes Craft of Literature multimedia CD with writing assignments, audio, video, and interactive readings. / IM, Teaching Comp. With Lit., Teaching Lit. On-Line, Blackboard and C Content, The Craft of Literature CD-ROM, CW, Interactive Ed.
X. J. Kennedy, after graduation from Seton Hall and Columbia, became a journalist second class in the Navy (Actually, I was pretty eighth class). His poems, some published in the New Yorker, were first collected in Nude Descending a Staircase (1961). Since then he has written six more collections, several widely adopted literature and writing textbooks, and seventeen books for children, including two novels. He has taught at Michigan, North Carolina (Greensboro), California (Irvine), Wellesley, Tufts, and Leeds. Cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and reprinted in some 200 anthologies, his verse has brought him a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lamont Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, an Aiken-Taylor prize, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the Award for Poetry for Children from the National Council of Teachers of English. He now lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he and his wife Dorothy have collaborated on four books and five children. Dana Gioia is a poet, critic, and teacher. Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican ancestry, he attended Stanford and Harvard before taking a detour into business. (Not many poets have a Stanford M.B.A., thank goodness!) After years of writing and reading late in the evenings after work, he quit a vice presidency to write and teach. He has published three collections of poetry, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award; an opera libretto, Nosferatu (2001); and three critical volumes, including Can Poetry Matter? (1992), an influential study of poetry's place in contemporary America. Gioia has taught at Johns Hopkins, Sarah Lawrence, Wesleyan (Connecticut), Mercer, and Colorado College. He is also the co-founder of the summer poetry conference at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. From 2003-2009 he served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At the NEA he created the largest literary programs in federal history, including Shakespeare in American Communities and Poetry Out Loud, the national high school poetry recitation contest. He also led the campaign to restore active and engaged literary reading by creating The Big Read, which has helped reverse a quarter century of decline in U.S. reading. He currently divides his time between Washington, D.C. and Santa Rosa, California, living with his wife Mary, their two sons, and two uncontrollable cats.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780673522801 |
| ISBN 10 | 0673522806 |
| Titel | Literature |
| Autor | X J Kennedy |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Longman |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 1994-11-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 1632 |
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