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new titles GARRISON KEILLOR, editor RITA DOVE, editor and classroom favorites in Good Poems, American Places The Penguin Anthology of Introduction by the editor Twentieth-century american poetry Th ird in Keillor’s series of anthologies, Good Poems, American Places brings together poems that cel- ebrate the geography and culture that bind us together as a nation. Th ink of these poems as postcards Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate, introduces from the road, by poets who’ve gotten carried away by a particular place—a town in Kansas, a kitchen readers to the most signifi cant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Se- lecting from the canon of American poetry throughout the twentieth century, Dove PAID window in Nantucket, a Manhattan street, a farm in western Minnesota. Featuring famous poets such Presort Std U.S. Postage as Billy Collins, Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Snyder, and Mary has created an anthology that represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities— Permit No. 169 AMERICAN Staten Island, NY Oliver, as well as brash unknowns, the verses in this exhilarating collection prove that the heart can be from styles and voices to themes and cultures—while balancing important poems exalted anywhere in America. with signifi cant periods of each poet. Viking HaRDcoVeR • 512 pages • 978-0-670-02254-0 • $28.95 “Rita Dove’s Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry is intelligent, gener- penguin papeRback • 512 pages • 978-0-14-312076-6 • $18.00 • aVailable apRil 2012 ous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read—literally, a heart-thumping collec- LITERATURE Also available: Good Poems 978-0-14-200344-2, Good Poems for Hard Times 978-0-14-303767-5 tion....Most other poetry anthologies give us schools, corners, clubs, and identities, but this one gives us something beyond representative that gets at the extraordinary from accomplishment and range of multi-vocal American poetry in the century. Dove’s TERRANCE HAYES selection—and this book—will long stand as the defi nitive anthology of American PENGUIN GROUP USA Lighthead poetry.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University “Dove’s introduction is informative and insightful, off ering an engaging discussion of penguin poeTs seRies trends in modern American poetry.”—Library Journal In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot fi rmly penguin HaRDcoVeR • 978-0-14-310643-2 • 688 pages • $40.00 grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a USA series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta tion format. 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