The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology : Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990

Phillips, Reed, Strads, and Wong (editors)

ISBN 10: 0393308332 / ISBN 13: 9780393308334

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1992

About this Item

This book is new. Cover shows slight edge/shelfwear. Over 150 selections from a decade of American Book Award-winning poetry including: Ai, Allen Ginsberg, Sonia Sanchez, Elizabeth Woody, etc. Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.

Seller Inventory # 8450-0054

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology : Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393308332
• ISBN 13: 9780393308334
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Since 1976 the Before Columbus Foundation has been devoted to the task of redefining our notion of mainstream American literature to reflect this country's multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial diversity. Since 1980 it has sponsored the American Book Awards, which honor a wide spectrum of books that reflect this heritage. To recognize literary excellence in this way demands a panoramic perspective, without restrictions and without quotas. Open, inclusive, democratic, the American Book Awards celebrates the many tributaries that flow into, in Ishmael Reed's words, the ocean of American literature. The Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology includes over 150 selections from a decade of American Book Award-winning poetry. Authors represented include Ai, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Edward Dorn, Allen Ginsberg, Maurice Kenny, Etheridge Knight, Colleen J. McElroy, Charles Olson, Sonia Sanchez, Gary Snyder, Quincy Troupe, Terence Winch, and Elizabeth Woody. It will quickly be seen as a landmark, pioneering volume and literary event. Along with The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology, which is being published simultaneously, it is the first book to reflect accurately the American literature of the present--and to prepare us for the American literature of the twenty-first century.

About the Author

The Before Columbus Foundation was founded in 1976 as a nonprofit educational and service organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature.