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The imagery of the American West is chronicled over the course of its long and varied cultural heritage. Deming has selected 150 poems by 75 poets including protest poems of the Chicano farmworkers, campfire cowboy songs, sacred American Indian songs, and works by Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, Adrienne Rich, Walt Whitman and other canonical figures.
Price: $26.00
Pages: 392
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date:
06 May 1999
ISBN: 9780231103879
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Substantial, provocative, necessary, lasting.
Alison H. Deming is director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona. Her 1993 book Science and Other Poems won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets as well as the Pushcart Prize. She is also the author of Temporary Homelands, a collection of essays.