The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry / Edition 3

by Michael Simms, Giuliana Certo, Christine Stroud

Overview

A comprehensive selection of work by 110 important American poets including Kim Addonizio, Jimmy Santiago Baca, George Bilgere, Chana Bloch, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dobyns, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Stephen Dunn, Terrance Hayes, Bob Hicok, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland, Marie Howe, Joy Katz, Jane Kenyon, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, William Matthews, Jeffery McDaniel, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ed Ochester, Linda Pastan, and Natasha Tretheway.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932870992
Publisher:	Autumn House Press
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Edition description:	3rd edition.
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Michael Simms is the founder of Autumn House Press. He lives in the historic Mount Washington neighborhood of Pittsburgh with his wife Eva Simms and their two children, Nicholas and Lea. Giuliana Certo is an educator and writer living in Pittsburgh, PA. She received her MFA from Chatham University and is currently a professor at Point Park University. Christine Stroud is the editor in chief of Autumn House Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, The Buried Return (Finishing Line Press, 2014) and Sister Suite (Disorder Press, 2017). A graduate of Chatham University’s MFA program, she received the best thesis in poetry award in 2013.

Editorial Reviews

In his introduction to The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Michael Simms writes, ‘Poetry is just like people talking.’ He further explains the ways it goes beyond common speech, saying poetry, ‘has something special or amazing about it, something that makes us think, wonder, or marvel.’ It is this idea of everyday language, heightened and crafted to give the reader a sense of amazement, that defines the aesthetic choices made by editors Michael Simms, Giullana Certo, and Christine Stroud as they curated this collection of poems by 106 American poets. The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry offers a snapshot of the poetry landscape at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. These poems contain contemporary poetry’s celebration of American life and language as well as its concerns about inclusion and varied voices.”—Anthony Frame, Weave Magazine


“Throughout this anthology the reader is confronted with the familiar—family, work, illness, war—and by that special alchemy of language put under pressure, what we call poetry, the mundane is made extraordinary.”—The Pittsburgh Post

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