American Sonnets: An Anthology: (American Poets Project #25)

When American poets turn to the sonnet, they invest it with a glamour and intensity equal to anything they have to show in more flamboyant, new-minted shapes. Like a symphony by Copland or a nude by de Kooning, an American sonnet marries European artistic tradition to New World innovation and expansiveness. Something old and familiar--the themes and schemes and history of the 14-line lyric--becomes something new, vital, and characteristically American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598530151
• ISBN13: 9781598530155
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.8" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher