American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

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Overview

This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem—the hybrid—a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles.

As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus in American Hybrid is on the blend; the more than seventy poets featured here—including Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth, and Lyn Hejinian—have found new and often unique ways to reconfigure the innumerable and sometimes conflicting voices of the past thirty years. The editors have crafted short introductory essays on each of the poets in the anthology, providing biographical backgrounds and positioning them within the current of contemporary poetry. This new anthology is essential reading for those who care about the present moment—and the future—of American verse.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393333756
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 03/01/2009
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 560
Sales rank: 612,327
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

David St. John has published nine collections of poetry, including The Face. He teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice, California.


A Guggenheim fellow and professor at Brown University, COLE SWENSEN is the author of more than ten poetry collections and many translations of works from the French.
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