The state of the art : a chronicle of American poetry, 1988-2014
Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
1988 "like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo" -- 1989 in an unlit alcove where bookstore patrons fear to tread -- 1990 to inflame passions, disturb the complacent, and arouse the anxiety of despots -- 1991 a poem entitled "Cigarettes" by a poet named Ash -- 1992 The question of poetry and its audience -- 1993 the gust of fresh air that turned into the blizzard of '93 -- 1994 It's safe to say that the inaugural was the best-attended poetry reading of the decade -- 1995 At least somebody played ball in 1994 -- 1996 a given volume in this series might hang question marks over all three terms in the title -- 1997 As a gimmick, if that's what it is, National Poetry Month worked -- The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997 (1998) The debate is joined -- 1998 The president spoke of having had to memorize 100 lines of Macbeth -- 1999 "Whitman rocks" -- 2000 "Now I know how poems feel" -- 2001 "Everybody else was analog and Nietzsche was digital" -- 2002 The day now marks a boundary -- 2003 "How many people have to die before you can becoem president?" -- 2004 canons do not remain fixed for long -- 2005 the creative writing workshop (and) the fall of civilization -- 2006 Accessibility - as a term and, implicitly, as a value -- 2007 Undoubtedly the most parodied of all poems -- 2008 Who says that hot poems can't get you into trouble in 2008? -- 2009 "that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry" -- 2012 McChrystal sent copies of "The Second Coming" to his special operators -- 2011 in Dickinson's brain, "wider than the sky" -- 2012 the "uncanny" is a category too little invoked -- The Best of the Best American Poetry, 25th Anniversary Edition (2013) "Every time I read Pessoa I think" -- It was his poetry that kept him going -- In the antagonism between science and the humanities .
