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A Beautiful Anthology Of Poems For The Ages
The Poets of New Jersey ~ From Colonial to Contemporary ~ Edited by Emanuel di Pasquale, Frank Finale, and Sander Zulauf • To order, please scroll to the bottom of this page. • Contents • Recent Media Features, Interviews, and Reviews: "The criteria for inclusion are fairly loose in terms of a relationship to New Jersey. X.J. Kennedy, whose work is also included, writes in his introduction that some of the poets are natives (William Carlos Williams), some are transplants (Whitman), and some 'merely passed through for a short time and moved on, as did Marianne Moore.'" "The poems are not thematically linked. Some refer to New Jersey roots, others could have been written anywhere in America. Maybe the literary landscape of America is so enormous and diverse that categorizing authors by state is simply a way to handle it in manageable chunks." "Literature also provides bragging
rights to people who live in the state of its origins:
even a quick perusal through this collection is a
revelation, a reminder of the power of language in the
hands of great artists. Regardless of geographic ties,
this book is a treasure." ~•~ "Like the sports hall of fame, then, this adds up to a pretty good roster, if not a great one, and it is hard to think of many states that could do much better..." "...the most appealing poems in this collection will be those that evoke and even celebrate our underappreciated state." "If you listen hard, moreover, you can
hear in this collection a poetic version of the famous
Jersey accent—not a murmur but a talky, bardic,
sometimes boisterous voice half in love with its own
sound... It's a voice that, like New Jersey itself, can
be both grandiose and self-mocking, and...it makes a
virtue of embacing not just the good day but the
bad..." ~•~ "...a stunning book for the ages, a
valuable piece of New Jersey history, ~•~ In
addition to the above, please check the archives of the
following newspapers for feature articles on "The
Poets of New Jersey." Township Journal, November 28, 2007 • Hardcover
edition, with gold foil stamped
embossed dust jacket Softcover
edition, with gold foil stamped embossed cover • Jersey Shore Publications, the publisher of beautiful books about New Jersey, is pleased to announce the publication of its newest title, The Poets of New Jersey. Celebrating sixty-five extraordinary poets who have lived and worked in New Jersey, from Colonial times to the present, many of the poets included in this anthology are among America's finest. Stephen Dunn, the Pulitzer Prize poet, originally from Port Republic, writes the Foreword; X. J. Kennedy, the renowned poet, originally from Dover (whose comprehensive text, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama, has taught generations of college students), writes the Introduction. The three editors, Emanuel di Pasquale from Long Branch, Frank Finale from Bayville, and Sander Zulauf from Andover, all poets themselves, had one simple criterion in compiling the works: they "wanted to hear the pure, clear words of the poets who have called this place home." They were interested in the sum of poetic greatness distilled from life in this state—the poetry New Jersey poets have written, whether New Jersey oriented or not. The editors reached back to the earliest poets, including Philip Freneau, the Revolutionary War's "Father of American Poetry" from Freehold; Walt Whitman, the "revolutionizer" of poetry from Camden; and Stephen Crane, the poet from Newark who bridged the realists to the moderns. They included three key figures of modernism, William Carlos Williams of Rutherford, Marianne Moore of Chatham, and Kenneth Burke of Andover, as well as their direct descendants—the poets of the Beat Generation—Allen Ginsberg from Paterson and Amiri Baraka from Newark. New Jersey's three other current Pulitzer Prize poets, Yusef Komunyakaa, C. K. Williams, and Paul Muldoon, all of Princeton, are also included. The result is a beautiful book of poetry for the ages. As X. J. Kennedy writes in his Introduction, "Without New Jersey, the world today would be darker and quieter; and contemporary American poetry, inconceivable." • Featuring poems by 65 New Jersey
poets, including: • Our books are beautifully printed and
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