Other Legacies
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Fantastic poets you've never heard of introduced by authors you know and love.
Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets brings together thirty-five extraordinary but under-recognized poets whose work has shaped and enriched the literary landscape of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, writers whose contributions were overlooked because of race, gender, sexuality, disability, region, language, resistance to prevailing literary norms, or plain bad luck. Selected and introduced by a vibrant community of contemporary poets and critics, these writers appear chronologically, allowing readers to trace an alternate, deeply pluralistic history of American poetry. With links to an interactive digital timeline, this anthology is an invaluable resource for classrooms, scholars, and readers seeking a more inclusive sense of American poetic lineage.
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ADRIENNE PERRY, Associate Professor of English at Villanova, is a Kimbilio Fellow and former editor of Gulf Coast. Her prose has received wide support and appears in Copper Nickel, The Common, Callaloo, and other journals. KEVIN PRUFER is the author of nine acclaimed poetry collections and co-editor of several anthologies. His work has received national awards and appeared on best-of lists from The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and others. MARTIN ROCK is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Infinite Scroll. A former senior editor at several literary journals, his poetry has been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best American Experimental Writing. He teaches at UC San Diego and co-directs The Unsung Masters Series.