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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A beautifully jacketed small hardcover that collects the greatest poetic tributes, past and present, to a remarkable metropolis. New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetryranging from Walt Whitmans exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city. All the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughess Harlem to James Merrills Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices. Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, Poems of New York will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Encompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted metropolis has to offer, "Poems of New York" ranges from the exuberant celebrations of Walt Whitman to contemporary poets' elegies to the city in the wake of the September 11 tragedy. with ribbon marker. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780375415043
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. A stunning mosaic of New York City's many incarnations in poetry - ranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to Lawrence Joseph's lamentable life 'In the Age of Postcapitalism' to responses to the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Towers. The selection encompasses as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing mega-metropolis has to offer. Acknowledgments. 256p. Seller Inventory # 1909210