A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line

 In the arena of poetry and poetics over the past century, no idea has been more alive and contentious than the idea of form, and no aspect of form has more emphatically sponsored this marked formal concern than the line. But what, exactly, is the line? Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee’s anthology gives seventy original answers that lead us deeper into the world of poetry, but also far out into the world at large: its people, its politics, its ecology. The authors included here, emerging and established alike, write from a range of perspectives, in terms of both aesthetics and identity. Together, they offer a dynamic hybrid collection that captures a broad spectrum of poetic practice in the twenty-first century.

 Emily Rosko is an assistant professor of creative writing at the College of Charleston. She is the author of Raw Goods Inventory (winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize), the winner of the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah, and recipient of the Stegner, Ruth Lilly, and Javits fellowships. Rosko holds an M.F.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from Missouri. Anton Vander Zee is a visiting assistant professor of English at the College of Charleston, and he holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His articles and review essays have appeared in Modern Philology,the Wallace Stevens Journal, Agni, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.