Hammer and Blaze
A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets
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Pages: 368
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 08/01/2002
ISBN: 9-780-8203-2416-6
List Price: $34.95
Hammer and Blaze
A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets
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Hammer and Blaze provides a true cross-section of the best contemporary poets writing in North America today. Editors Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh have brought together the work of sixty poets who have taught at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, one of the most respected and influential writing programs of its kind.
The stellar group of contributors includes MacArthur fellows Campbell McGrath, Anne Carson, Edward Hirsch, Eleanor Wilner, Susan Stewart, and Lucia Perillo. Also represented here are works by Pulitzer Prize winners Stephen Dunn and Louise Glück; Ruth Lilly Prize winner Carl Dennis; and Robert Wrigley, Thomas Lux, and B. H. Fairchild, winners of the Kingsley Tufts Award. From the couplets of Pablo Medina to the neoclassical lyricisms of Carl Phillips, this anthology appropriately reflects the cross-cultural nature of contemporary North American poetry with its most diverse and prestigious voices. A number of the poems are previously unpublished, including work by Joan Aleshire, Stuart Dischell, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen Dunn, Roland Flint, Carol Frost, Barbara Greenberg, Edward Hirsch, Pablo Medina, Steve Orlen, Gregory Orr, Kathleen Peirce, Kenneth Rosen, Daniel Tobin, Alan Williamson, and Eleanor Wilner.
Hammer and Blaze, a gathering of our best poets, should garner attention from the literary world at large as well as from students of contemporary poetry and creative writing.
This collection brings together some of the finest poetry of the last two decades.
—Sue E. Budin
Hammer and Blaze is a fine introduction to one segment of today's literary community.
—Judith Kitchen, Georgia Review
Alan Williamson
Anne Carson
B. Fairchild
Barbara Greenberg
Betty Adcock
Brigit Kelly
Brooks Haxton
Campbell McGrath
Carl Dennis
Carl Phillips
Carol Frost
Chase Twichell
Chris Forhan
Claudia Rankine
Daniel Tobin
David Baker
David Smith
Dean Young
Debra Allbery
Edward Hirsch
Eleanor Wilner
Grace Schulman
Gregory Orr
Jean Valentine
Joan Aleshire
John Skoyles
Karen Brennan
Kathleen Peirce
Kenneth Rosen
Larry Levis
Laura Kasischke
Louise Gluck
Lucia Perillo
Lynn Emanuel
Marianne Boruch
Mary Leader
Maura Stanton
Maureen Howe
Michael Collier
Michael Ryan
Pablo Medina
Peter Cooley
Reginald Gibbons
Renate Wood
Robert Wrigley
Roger Fanning
Roland Flint
Stephen Dobyns
Stephen Dunn
Steve Orlen
Stuart Dischell
Susan Stewart
Thomas Lux
Tom Andrews
Tom Sleigh
Tony Hoagland