The Poetry of Men's Lives
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The Poetry of Men's Lives

An International Anthology

Edited by Al Zolynas and Fred Moramarco

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Pages: 448

Trim size: 6.120in x 9.250in

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Paperback

Pub Date: 12/01/2004

ISBN: 9-780-8203-2649-8

List Price: $36.95

The Poetry of Men's Lives

An International Anthology

Edited by Al Zolynas and Fred Moramarco

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Alive with the wisdom, artistry, and emotion of more than 250 poets from nearly one hundred countries, this anthology celebrates the multifaceted experience of contemporary manhood. The lives into which these poems invite us reveal the influences of culture, heredity, personal experience, values, beliefs, wishes, desires, loves, and betrayals. Men are notoriously reluctant to open up and discuss these things; and yet when they do—as in these poems—they tell us about their families, lovers, relationships, political and religious beliefs, sexuality, and childhoods. There is much to learn here about who men are and how they see their worlds.

Collects close to three hundred poems, in English or English translation, by more than 250 poets.Nearly one hundred countries are represented, from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, South America, Central America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania (including Australia and New Zealand).Organized in topical sections: Boyhood and Youth; Families; Identities: Cultural, Personal, Male; Men and Women; Myth, Archetypes, and Spirituality; Politics, War, and Revolution; Sex and Sexuality; Poets and Poetry, Artists and Art; Brothers, Friends, Mentors, and Rivals; Work, Sports, and Games; Aging, Illness, and Death.

A fascinating anthology. The coeditors have done a commendable job of harvesting work from many different cultures and languages. It is also impressive how many little-known or unknown poets and poems from around the world the authors have managed to root out and include.

—C. K. Williams, author of The Singing: Poems

This is an ambitious attempt to document the fact of contemporary male poetry in a ranging context of cultures and place. All one can say is, More!

—Robert Creeley, author of If I Were Writing This

A wonderful book, one that amazed me and made me feel more whole in the world. It is genuinely one that women and men and different ethnic, racial, political, and geographical groups will want to read.

—Jacqueline Vaught Brogran, author of The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Poetics

Winner

San Diego Book Awards, San Diego Book Awards Association

Frank Chipasula

About the Author/Editor

Fred Moramarco (Editor)
FRED MORAMARCO is a professor of English at San Diego State University and editor of Poetry International. He is a coeditor, with Al Zolynas, of Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (Georgia).

Al Zolynas (Editor)
AL ZOLYNAS is a professor of English at Alliant International University in San Diego. He is coeditor, with Fred Moramarco, of Men of Our Time: An Anthology of Male Poetry in Contemporary America (Georgia).