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Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets / Johnson, Kent, editor ; Kunitz S ; Simic C ; Antin D ; Graham J ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; Lehman D ; Ashbery J ; Koch K ; MacLow J ; Howe S ; Beer J ; Davis J ; Lauterbach A ; Whalen P ; Lin T ; Sondheim A ; Daniels C ; Eshleman C ; Palmer M ; Bly R ; Lifshin L ; Stefans BK ; Merwin W ; Joris P ; Creeley R ; Padgett R ; Evans S ; McCord H ; Davies A ; Silliman R ; Elmslie K ; Yau J ; Alexander W ; Grenier R ; Debrot J ; Codrescu A ; Baraka A ; Watten B ; Damon M ; Smith R ; Bromige D ; Hejinian L ; Alexander C ; Robinson A ; Napora J ; Wieners J ; Dworkin C ; Howe F ; Featherstone D ; Luoma B ; Wakoski D ; Snyder G ; DiPalma R ; Lazer H ; Edson R ; Young D ; Scalapino L., 2004
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Identifier: CC-50164-71228
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An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...
Dates:
2004
Open Poetry / Gross, Ronald, editor ; Quasha, George, editor ; Williams, Emmett, editor ; Colombo, John Robert, editor ; Lowenfels, Walter, editor ; Antin D ; Cage J ; MacLow J ; Rothenberg J ; Lax R ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Pignatari D ; Finlay IH ; Gomringer E ; Higgins D ; Knowles A ; Kriwet F ; Mayer HJ ; Williams E ; Roth D ; Solt ME ; Giorno J ; Morgan E ; Porter B ; Kutter M ; Schwerner A ; Hollo A ; Bremer C ; Corner P ; DeSa A ; Dunn D ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Filliou R ; Merton T ; Oldenburg C ; Patterson B ; Ruhm G ; Tenney J ; Colombo JR ; Cogdon K ; Antin E ; Weiner H ; Lowenfels W., 1973
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Identifier: CC-10198-10399
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This anthology of poems for most part published in the 60s representing four present tendencies of poetry-Metapoetry: the Poetry of changes, Language Happenings (Concrete & Intermedia Poetry), Found Poetry & the 'Poetry of Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1973