Twentieth Century American Poetry by Dana Gioia

Twentieth Century American Poetry by Dana Gioia

Presents an anthology of 59 essays on poetry by 54 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, this book collects diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhona Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, Ron Silliman, and others.

David Mason grew up in Bellingham, Washington and has lived in Colorado, Alaska, New York, Pennsylvania and Greece. From 1989 to 1998, he taught at Moorhead State University, and he has since joined the faculty of his alma mater, The Colorado College. He received his doctorate from The University of Rochester. His two prize-winning collections of poems are The Buried Houses and The Country I Remember, both from Story Line Press. Chapbooks include Small Elegies and Land Without Grief. With Mark Jarman, he is co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. He has also published a book of essays, The Poetry of Life, and serves as an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review. In 1997, he was a Fulbright Fellow to Greece. He is married to Anne Lennox, a photographer, and has a stepdaughter, Darcy.

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ISBN 13	9780072400199
ISBN 10	0072400196
Title	Twentieth Century American Poetry
Author	Dana Gioia
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Year published	2003-12-24
Number of pages	1192
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