Poems of New York - (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Elizabeth Schmidt (Hardcover)
Similar Products
Products of same category from the store
All
Product info
<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted metropolis has to offer, "Poems of New York" ranges from the exuberant celebrations of Walt Whitman to contemporary poets' elegies to the city in the wake of the September 11 tragedy. with ribbon marker.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry-ranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets' moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city. <p/>All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughes's Harlem to James Merrill's Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices. <p/>Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, <i>Poems of New York</i> will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, a former poetry editor at the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, is the editor of the acclaimed anthology <i>Poems of New York</i> and <i>The Poets Laureate Anthology</i>. She lives in New York City and currently teaches American literature at Sarah Lawrence College.
Price History
Price Archive shows prices from various stores, lets you see history and find the cheapest. There is no actual sale on the website. For all support, inquiry and suggestion messagescommunication@pricearchive.us