Poems of New York (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Elizabeth Schmidt (Selected and Edited by)

ISBN 10: 0375415041 / ISBN 13: 9780375415043

Published by Everyman's Library August 2002, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems of New York (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library August 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375415041
• ISBN 13: 9780375415043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Everyman

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Synopsis

A beautifully jacketed small hardcover that collects the greatest poetic tributes, past and present, to a remarkable metropolis.

New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry–ranging from Walt Whitman’s exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets’ moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city.

All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughes’s Harlem to James Merrill’s Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices.

Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, Poems of New York will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

About the Author

Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, a former poetry editor at the New York Times Book Review, is the editor of the acclaimed anthology Poems of New York and The Poets Laureate Anthology. She lives in New York City and currently teaches American literature at Sarah Lawrence College.