{"product_id":"love-songs-john-dizikes-9781944037765","title":"Love Songs: The Lives, Loves, and Poetry of Nine American Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry was a form of liberation. The all-engrossing subject was love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove Songs\u003c\/em\u003e is a collective biography of nine American women poets who lived and wrote, primarily, in the first half of the twentieth century and were important in the emergence of New York City as the literary capital of the nation. They knew one another, and sometimes reviewed, criticized, and encouraged each other's work. The poems presented here are lyric poems, short song-like poems of many moods and forms, on many varied subjects - relationships, urban life, modernism and traditionalism, contemporary politics, and, above John Dizikes all, the infinite varieties of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eL onie Adams \u003c\/strong\u003esubtly explored the metaphysics of contemporary love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise Bogan\u003c\/strong\u003e, a wide-ranging observer of the contemporary scene, was influential as poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmy Lowell, \u003c\/strong\u003e a pioneer of free verse and Modernist Imagism, was a prolific essayist and reviewer, and a biographer of Keats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay\u003c\/strong\u003e, a compelling performer and a cultural force, was America's most-read poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarianne Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e, unconventional in every regard, was an incomparable Modernist, her poetry unique in point of view and style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenevieve Taggard\u003c\/strong\u003e, an editor and an early champion of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, explored radicalism and contemporary politics in her own work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMillay\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eSara Teasdale\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eElinor Wylie\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eDorothy Parker\u003c\/strong\u003e were popular to a degree which seems extraordinary now. Their work was widely quoted, printed and reprinted in newspapers and journals, and performed for large audiences both live and via radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVaried and independent, all were triumphantly successful in the courage with which they wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Dizikes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1944037764\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944037765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Animal Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/08\/2018","brand":"John Dizikes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43940237443327,"sku":"9781944037765","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d3e3dd16-7f99-4ed2-b692-748a65b65a12.jpg?v=1681446036","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-songs-john-dizikes-9781944037765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}