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An Ear to the Ground

An Ear to the Ground
$30.95
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press
  • Editor: Marie Harris, Kathleen Aguero
  • Available in: Paperback
  • ISBN: 978-0-8203-1123-4
  • Published: January 15, 1989
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An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry

In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities–among them Native, Asian, and black Americans; Chicano and Puerto Rican writers; gay and lesbian poets; writers of working-class background; and poets writing from American prisons.

“It is not in our common interest,” write the editors, “to pretend that a single voice speaks for all our citizens or that the language we use is static.” The language and culture of the United States is alive with the influences of many immigrant and native populations, yet critical and scholarly attention has been overwhelmingly focused on only one American literary tradition: that of white, male bourgeois culture. Correcting this myopia, An Ear to the Ground and its companion volume of critical essays, A Gift of Tongues, together form a beginning attempt to create a literature of inclusion, to draw a new map of American poetry that will encompass all the nation’s many histories and voices.

*cited as one of ALA’s Notable Books of 1989

 

Booklist review

Exemplary…A stirring multicultural anthology of contemporary American poetry that includes many women, workers, poor people, gays, blacks, Hispanics, and native Americans among the wide range of outsider voices not commonly heard from in mainstream collections….If you can only purchase one poetry anthology this year, make it this one.

The Bloomsbury Review

This anthology is one of the most important of the decade.

Publishers Weekly

…Sorrowful, subversive, this is a compelling anthology.

 

 


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A Poet for Your Bookshelf, Classroom, or Library

Welcome! Come on in and browse through my books of poetry, anthologies I’ve edited and in which my poems appear, and some essays and articles on subjects ranging from blue water sailing to New England farm stays to birding. You can also find photos of my collaborations with painters, sculptors, photographers and musicians. Listen to audio clips of a sampling of my voiceover work.

As a poet, I perform and teach at colleges & universities throughout the country, and in residencies in elementary and high schools, libraries, writers’ workshops and retreats, and senior centers. Read More…

Words in Progress

Walking Song

WALKING SONG …reminding herself that she was only an elderly woman who had got up too early in the morning and journeyed too far, that the despair creeping over her was merely her despair, her personal weakness, and that even if she got a sunstroke and went mad the rest of the world would go […]

My Brother is Gone from Us

Basil Harris (pictured with sister Anne, summer 2016) He died today. Farewell, sweet singer.

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