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The Heart of American Poetry

The Heart of American Poetry

Hirsch, Edward

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysPoetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 1598537261
ISBN13: 9781598537260
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Apr 19 2022
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
An acclaimed poet and our greatest champion for poetry offers an inspiring and insightful new reading of the American tradition

We live in unsettled times. What is America and who are we as a people? How do we understand the dreams and betrayals that have shaped the American experience? For poet and critic Edward Hirsch, poetry opens up new ways of answering these questions, of reconnecting with one another and with what's best in us.

In this landmark new book from Library of America, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew--from Anne Bradstreet's The Author to Her Book and Phillis Wheatley's To S.M. a Young African Painter, on seeing his Works to Garrett Hongo's Ancestral Graves, Kahuku and Joy Harjo's Rabbit Is Up to Tricks--exploring how these poems have sustained his own life and how they might uplift our diverse but divided nation.

This is a personal book about American poetry, writes Hirsch, but I hope it is more than a personal selection. I have chosen forty poems from our extensive archive and songbook that have been meaningful to me,

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