The Poets of New Jersey - From Colonial to Contemporary - Softcover

Emanuel Di Pasquale; Zulauf, Sander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096329069X ISBN 13: 9780963290694

Publisher: Jersey Shore Publications, 2005

Synopsis

Jersey Shore Publications, the publisher of beautiful books about New Jersey, is pleased to announce the publication of its newest title, The Poets of New Jersey.

Celebrating sixty-five extraordinary poets who have lived and worked in New Jersey, from Colonial times to the present, many of the poets included in this anthology are among America's finest. Stephen Dunn, the Pulitzer Prize poet, originally from Port Republic, writes the Foreword; X. J. Kennedy, the renowned poet, originally from Dover (whose comprehensive text, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama, has taught generations of college students), writes the Introduction.

The three editors, Emanuel di Pasquale from Long Branch, Frank Finale from Bayville, and Sander Zulauf from Andover, all poets themselves, had one simple criterion in compiling the works: they "wanted to hear the pure, clear words of the poets who have called this place home." They were interested in the sum of poetic greatness distilled from life in this state—the poetry New Jersey poets have written, whether New Jersey oriented or not.

The editors reached back to the earliest poets, including Philip Freneau, the Revolutionary War's "Father of American Poetry" from Freehold; Walt Whitman, the "revolutionizer" of poetry from Camden; and Stephen Crane, the poet from Newark who bridged the realists to the moderns. They included three key figures of modernism, William Carlos Williams of Rutherford, Marianne Moore of Chatham, and Kenneth Burke of Andover, as well as their direct descendants—the poets of the Beat Generation—Allen Ginsberg from Paterson and Amiri Baraka from Newark. New Jersey's three other current Pulitzer Prize poets, Yusef Komunyakaa, C. K. Williams, and Paul Muldoon, all of Princeton, are also included.

The result is a beautiful book of poetry for the ages. As X. J. Kennedy writes in his Introduction, "Without New Jersey, the world today would be darker and quieter; and contemporary American poetry, inconceivable."

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Featuring poems by 65 New Jersey poets, including:
A. R. Ammons · Kenneth Burke · Stephen Crane · Stephen Dobyns · Stephen Dunn · Philip Freneau · Allen Ginsberg · X. J. Kennedy · Joyce Kilmer · Yusef Komunyakaa · Maxine Kumin · Denise Levertov · Timothy Liu · W. S. Merwin · Marianne Moore · Paul Muldoon · Joyce Carol Oates · Dorothy Parker · Robert Pinsky · David Shapiro · Gerald Stern · Theodore Weiss · Richard Wilbur · Walt Whitman · C. K. Williams · William Carlos Williams · Elinor Wylie

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About this title

About the Author:

The Editors

Emanuel di Pasquale has lived in New Jersey since 1968 and teaches at Middlesex County College. His books of poems include Genesis (BOA Editions Limited, 1989) and The Silver Lake Love Poems (Bordighera, 2000). He was awarded The Bordighera Poetry Prize in 1998, The Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship in 2000, and the Chelsea Award for Poetry in 2002. He is currently the poetry editor of the literary journal Chelsea and lives in Long Branch, along the ocean, with his younger daughter, Elisabeth Raffaela.

Frank Finale is one of the founding editors of Without Halos (1983 1995). He is currently the Poetry Editor of the new renaissance and co-edited the anthology Under a Gull's Wing (Down the Shore Publishing, 1996). He is the author of To The Shore Once More, Volumes I & II and A Gull's Story, a children's book (Jersey Shore Publications, 1999 2003). He taught for thirty-eight years in the Toms River Regional Schools in New Jersey and was chosen for the 2002 Governor's Teacher Recognition Program. He currently lives in Bayville with his wife, Barbara.

Sander Zulauf, a native New Jerseyan, edits the Journal of New Jersey Poets and teaches poetry and writing in the English and Philosophy Department at County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey. In 1971, with Irwin Weiser, he originated the Index of American Periodical Verse, an annual poetry reference book, and edited the first ten volumes. In 1999 he was named first Poet Laureate of the Episcopal Church's Newark Diocese. His two books of poetry are Succasunna New Jersey and Living Waters. He lives in Andover with his wife, photographer Madeline Zulauf.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jersey Shore Publications
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 096329069X
• ISBN 13: 9780963290694
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Emanuel Di Pasquale, Frank Finale, Sander Zulauf