Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393308334)

Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of mainstream American literature to reflect this country's multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial diversity. Since 1980 it has sponsored the American Book Awards, which honor a wide spectrum of books that reflect this heritage. To recognize literary excellence in this way demands a panoramic perspective, without restrictions and without quotas. Open, inclusive, democratic, the American Book Awards celebrates the many tributaries that flow into, in Ishmael Reed's words, the ocean of American literature. The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology includes over 150 selections from a decade of American Book Award-winning poetry. Authors represented include Ai, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Edward Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Kenny, Etheridge Knight, Colleen J. McElroy, Charles Olson, Sonia Sanchez, Gary Snyder, Quincy Troupe, Terence Winch, and Elizabeth Woody. It will quickly be seen as a landmark, pioneering volume and literary event. Along with The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology, which is being published simultaneously, it is the first book to reflect accurately the American literature of the present--and to prepare us for the American literature of the twenty-first century.

Author: Before Columbus Foundation
ISBN-10: 0393308332
ISBN-13: 9780393308334
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1963
Pages: 476
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.49w x 1.16d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/1992 pg. 805