Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing Plus REVEL -- Access Card Package (5th Edition) - Softcover

Kennedy, X. J.; Gioia, Dana

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9780134264554: Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing Plus REVEL -- Access Card Package (5th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 013426455X ISBN 13: 9780134264554

Publisher: Longman, 2015

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REVEL™ for Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Fifth Edition is designed to work with the smallest and most economical member of the Kennedy/Gioia family – a brief paperback version of the discipline's most popular literature anthology. Backpack Literature leads readers beyond the boundaries of self to see the world through the eyes of others. Built on the assumption that great literature can enrich and enlarge the lives it touches, the text was developed with two primary goals: to introduce students to the appreciation and experience of literature in its major forms, and to develop students’ abilities to think critically and communicate effectively about and through writing.

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About the Author

X. J. Kennedy, born in Dover, New Jersey, in 1929, to avoid confusion with better-known Joe Kennedys, stuck an X on his name when his first poems came out in The New Yorker, and ever since has been stuck with it. He has served as a destroyer sailor, as the father of five, as poetry editor of The Paris Review, and as Professor of English at Tufts (he quit the last two jobs in order to write). Nude Descending the Staircase (Lamont Award, Doubleday, 1961) was his first book of poems; more recent ones are In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New & Selected Poems (an American Library Association notable book, 2009) and Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse (BOA Editions, 2008). He has also written twenty books for children (with Dorothy M. Kennedy, Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry, Longman, 1982, revised 1999); textbooks inflicted on more than six million students, including An Introduction to Poetry, 13th edition (with Dana Gioia); and a comic novel, A Hoarse Half-Human Cheer (Curtis Brown Unlimited, 2014). In 2009, the Poetry Society awarded him its Robert Frost Medal for his life's work in poetry. He and Dorothy live in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Dana Gioia attended Stanford University and did graduate work at Harvard, where he studied with Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Fitzgerald. He left Harvard to attend Stanford Business School. For fifteen years he worked in New York for general Foods (eventually becoming a Vice President) while writing nights and weekends, In 1992 he became a full-time writer. Currently he lives in California. Gioia has published three books of poems, Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award. He is also the author of Can Poetry Matter? (1992; reprinted 2002). He has edited a dozen anthologies of poetry and fiction. A prolific critic and reviewer, he is also a frequent commentator on American culture for BBC Radio. He recently completed Nosferatu (2001), an opera libretto for composer Alva Henderson.

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