An Ear to the Ground
An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
Published on 1. May 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-0-8203-1123-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities-among them Native, Asian, and black Americans; Chicano and Puerto Rican writers; gay and lesbian poets; writers of working-class background; and poets writing from American prisons.
"It is not in our common interest," write the editors, "to pretend that a single voice speaks for all our citizens or that the language we use is static." The language and culture of the United States is alive with the influences of many immigrant and native populations, yet critical and scholarly attention has been overwhelmingly focused on only one American literary tradition: that of white, male bourgeois culture. Correcting this myopia, An Ear to the Ground and its companion volume of critical essays, A Gift of Tongues, together form a beginning attempt to create a literature of inclusion, to draw a new map of American poetry that will encompass all the nation's many histories and voices.
"It is not in our common interest," write the editors, "to pretend that a single voice speaks for all our citizens or that the language we use is static." The language and culture of the United States is alive with the influences of many immigrant and native populations, yet critical and scholarly attention has been overwhelmingly focused on only one American literary tradition: that of white, male bourgeois culture. Correcting this myopia, An Ear to the Ground and its companion volume of critical essays, A Gift of Tongues, together form a beginning attempt to create a literature of inclusion, to draw a new map of American poetry that will encompass all the nation's many histories and voices.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8203-1123-4 (9780820311234)
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Marie Harris (Editor)
MARIE HARRIS is a poet and editor. Among her publications are two volumes of poetry, Raw Honey and Interstate. She is coeditor, with Kathleen Aguero, of A Gift of Tongues: Critical Challenges in Contemporary American Poetry (Georgia).
Kathleen Aguero (Editor)
KATHLEEN AGUERO is the author of two volumes of poetry, Thirsty Day and The Real Weather. She is coeditor, with Marie Harris, of A Gift of Tongues: Critical Challenges in Contemporary American Poetry (Georgia).
MARIE HARRIS is a poet and editor. Among her publications are two volumes of poetry, Raw Honey and Interstate. She is coeditor, with Kathleen Aguero, of A Gift of Tongues: Critical Challenges in Contemporary American Poetry (Georgia).
Kathleen Aguero (Editor)
KATHLEEN AGUERO is the author of two volumes of poetry, Thirsty Day and The Real Weather. She is coeditor, with Marie Harris, of A Gift of Tongues: Critical Challenges in Contemporary American Poetry (Georgia).