More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems

Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture. This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems-brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections-from the mid-twentieth century through today.

By experiencing the various ways that our greatest poets re-render and distort themselves, we see America's glorious struggle with defining itself. John Ashbery, Stephanie Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido, Natalie Diaz, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Donika Kelly, Gregory Pardlo, Sylvia Plath, Carl Phillips, Mark Strand, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and many others.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Russ Spaar
• Assisted by: Lisa Russ Spaar (Editor)
• Publisher: Persea Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780892555062
• ISBN: 978-0-89255-506-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 224 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 334 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Amerika, Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General