Walt Whitman Hom(m)Age 2005/1855

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A bilingual (English and French) poetry anthology with works by 38 American poets in honor of Whitman's Leaves of Grass for its 150th anniversary. The poets include John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Mark Ford, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, David Trinidad, and Anne Waldman.

Product Details

Price
$16.95
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Publish Date
August 01, 2008
Pages
164
Dimensions
6.69 X 0.35 X 9.61 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
French
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781885586469
BISAC Categories:
Anthologies (multiple authors)

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About the Author

Bill Berkson is a poet, art critic and professor of art history at the San Francisco Art Institute. Of his eleven books and pamphlets of poetry, the most recent are Lush Life (Z Press) and Start Over (Tombouctou). He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and a regular contributor to Modern Painters, American Craft and other magazines. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Robert Creeley (1926-2005) published more than sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews in the United States and abroad, including "If I Were Writing This, Selected Poems 1945-1990, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005, "and "The Island. "His many honors include the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University.

John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York, in 1927. He wrote more than twenty books of poetry, including Quick Question; Planisphere; Notes from the Air; A Worldly Country; Where Shall I Wander; and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. The winner of many prizes and awards, both nationally and internationally, he received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation in 2011 and a National Humanities Medal, presented by President Obama at the White House, in 2012. Ashbery died in September 2017 at the age of ninety.

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