This important and inspiring collection is a sweeping overview of Poetry written in New York in the year After the 9/11 attacks .
Alicia Ostriker , twice nominated for a National Book Award, is a renowned poet and author of twelve volumes of poetry, most recently The Book of Seventy ..
They began the publishing house with this book.
About author(s): Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians are the founders of Melville House.
Featuring poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn
Best American Poetry series editor David Lehman
National Book Award winner and New York State Poet Jean Valentine; the first ever Nuyorican Slam-Poetry champ; Poets laureate of Brooklyn and Queens; and a poem and introduction by National Book Award finalist Alicia Ostriker.
Full of humor, love, rage and fear, this diverse collection of poems attests to that power of Poetry to express and to heal the human spirit.
New Yorkers spontaneously turned to Poetry to understand and cope with the tragedy of the attack.
It was inspired by the editors\' observation that After the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, Poetry was being posted everywhere in New York--on telephone poles, on warehouse walls, on bus shelters, in the letters-to-the-editor section of newspapers ...
This Anthology contains poems by forty-five of the most important Poets of the day, as well as some of the literary world\'s most dynamic young voices, all writing in New York City in the year immediately following the World Trade Center attacks. . .
This important and inspiring collection is a sweeping overview of Poetry written in New York in the year After the 9/11 attacks
