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Poems of New York (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Elizabeth Schmidt

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UPC:
9780375415043
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2002-08-13
Release Date:
2002-08-13
Language:
english
Edition:
First Edition
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New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetryranging from Walt Whitmans exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city.

All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughess Harlem to James Merrills Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices.

Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, Poems of New York will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere.