Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration

Ward, David C. and Frank H. Goodyear III, editors; John Koethe, Geoffrey Brock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Schmidt, Tracy K. Smith, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scafidi, Jr., Nikki Giovanni, Eavan Boland, CD Wright, Jorie Graham et al.

ISBN 10: 1588343979 / ISBN 13: 9781588343970

Published by Smithsonian Books, 2013

About this Item

First printing. Fine paperback original with French flaps. Signed by the editors and poets Tracy K. Smith, John Koethe, Geoffrey Brock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Schmidt, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scalifi, Jr., Nikki Giovanni, Eavan Boland, and CD Wright at their section headings. Koethe signature a bit smudged. Event program included.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1588343979
• ISBN 13: 9781588343970
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • glenn

About this title

Synopsis

Lines in Long Array demonstrates the enduring impact of the Civil War on American culture by presenting poems and photographs from both the past and present, including 12 wholly new poems by contemporary poets created especially for this volume.

Includes previously unpublished poetry by Eavan Boland, Geoffrey Brock, Nikki Giovanni, Jorie Graham, John Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scafidi, Jr., Michael Schmidt, Dave Smith, Tracy K. Smith, and C. D. Wright. Also includes historic poems by Ethel Lynn Beers, Ambrose Bierce, George H. Boker, Emily Dickinson, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Julia Ward Howe, Herman Melville, Francis Orray Ticknor, Henry Timrod, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

About the Author

DAVID C. WARD is a historian at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. He is the coauthor of the award-winning Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture and author of Charles Willson Peale: Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic. Ward is also a poet whose collection, Internal Difference, was published in 2011. FRANK H. GOODYEAR III is the co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. He was previously curator of photographs at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. He is the author of Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits of the American West, 1845-1924, Zaida Ben-Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer, and Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief.