The Body Electric: 25 Years of America's Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish date: 02/01/2004
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Since its founding in 1972, The American Poetry Review has published new and outstanding work by America's finest poets. Here is the best of APR, in a selection by the current editors from 156 issues of the magazine APR which has the largest circulation for a poetry journal in this try approximately 20,000 subscribers has not only given a forum for poetry in this country but also contributed making poetry a part of the mainstream culture.
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The magazine has introduced new poets as well as defined the poetry of a particular time in history. Among the poets represented in this collection are Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Hayden Carruth, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Forche, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Gluck, lone Graham, W. S. Merwin, Frank O'Hara, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, Derek Walcott and James Wright.
From the most experimental, radical language poetry to traditionally formal poetry, The Body Electric captures the spirit of contemporary American poetry and provides a breathtaking, incomparable overview of American poetry at the millennium.
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