Persea Books More truly and more strange: 100 contemporary american self-portrait poems, paperback/lisa russ spaar

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Our rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.

) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture.

This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems--brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections--from the mid-twentieth century through today.

By experiencing the various ways that our greatest poets re-render and distort themselves, we see America's glorious struggle with defining itself.

John Ashbery, Stephanie Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido, Natalie Diaz, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Donika Kelly, Gregory Pardlo, Sylvia Plath, Carl Phillips, Mark Strand, Tracy K.

Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and many others.