POETRY American Poets
in the 21st Century
Women poets writing at the intersections of different schools of poetics.
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY Beyond Lyric and Language edited by LISA SEWELL and KAZIM ALI North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language is an im-
portant new addition to the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. Among the insightful pieces included in this volume are essays by Catherine Cucinella on Marilyn Chin, Meg Tyler on Fanny Howe, Elline Lipkin on Alice Notley, Kamran Javadizadeh on Claudia Rankine, and many more. A companion web site will present audio of each poet’s work.
Includes poetry by: Marilyn Chin, Fanny Howe, Alice Notley, Claudia Rankine, Martha Ronk, Leslie Scalapino, Cole Swensen, Natasha Trethewey, Jean Valentine, Cecilia Vicuña, Rosmarie Waldrop.
Includes essays by: Catherine Cucinella, Meg Tyler, Elline Lipkin, Kamran Javadizadeh, Brian Teare, Michael Cross, Lynn Keller, Khadijah Queen, Lisa Russ Spaar, Julie Brown, FEBRUARY 496 pages 6 x 9 7 b&w photos
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Pennsylvania. Kazim Ali (SAN DIEGO, CA) is a professor of literature and writing at the
Lisa Sewell (VILLANOVA, PA) is a professor of creative writing at Villanova University in University of California, San Diego.
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