Poetry of the American West
Published on 6. May 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-231-10387-9 (ISBN)
Description
The imagery of the American West is chronicled over the course of its long and varied cultural heritage. Deming has selected 150 poems by 75 poets including protest poems of the Chicano farmworkers, campfire cowboy songs, sacred American Indian songs, and works by Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Walt Whitman and other canonical figures.
Reviews / Votes
Substantial, provocative, necessary, lasting. The Bloomsbury Review This landmark anthology samples work from the panoply of poetic voices that spring from, or find a home in, the American West... Startling and poignant... Insightful biographical notes do much to place the work in a larger literary and social context; historical and contemporary photographs of the people and landscapes of the West make it an exceptionally handsome book. Boston ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
40 photos
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-10387-9 (9780231103879)
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Book
06/1996
Columbia University Press
€71.31
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Person
Alison H. Deming is director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. Her 1993 book Science and Other Poems won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets as well as the Pushcart Prize. She is also the author of Temporary Homelands, a collection of essays.