American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393333756)

As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus in American Hybrid is on the blend; the more than seventy poets featured here--including Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth, and Lyn Hejinian--have found new and often unique ways to reconfigure the innumerable and sometimes conflicting voices of the past thirty years. The editors have crafted short introductory essays on each of the poets in the anthology, providing biographical backgrounds and positioning them within the current of contemporary poetry. This new anthology is essential reading for those who care about the present moment--and the future--of American verse.

Author: Cole Swensen
ISBN-10: 0393333752
ISBN-13: 9780393333756
Publisher: Countryman Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/15/2008 pg. 132
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2009 pg. 40
Library Journal 04/15/2009 pg. 95