More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems

Acclaimed anthologist Lisa Russ Spaar compiles poems for the Instagram age, assembling 100 of America's greatest poets exquisitely depicted in their own eyes and words.

Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture. This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems-brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections-from the mid-twentieth century throu...