false 445635 1 2 My Soviet Union,, winner of the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He is presently an assistant professor of English at Cleveland State University, where he also serves as Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.]]> male 1976/01/18 308794 402463 1932511296 9781932511291 10 <![CDATA[Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174449196m/402463.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174449196s/402463.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402463.Legitimate_Dangers_American_Poets_of_the_New_Century 3.90 122 This groundbreaking anthology offers a broad and representative introduction to some of the most exciting, fresh voices on the contemporary poetry landscape by gathering together generous selections from the work of 85 younger American poets.

The poets selected were born after 1960, published their first book within the last 10 years, and have no more than three books published. Some are the recipients of numerous awards, while others, who are making their first appearance, are quickly making significant contributions to twenty-first-century poetry.

The poets include Rick Barot, Joshua Beckman, David Berman, Nick Flynn, Matthea Harvey, Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson, James Kimbrell, D.A. Powell, Spencer Reece, Matthew Rohrer, Rebecca Wolff, Kevin Young, Matthew Zapruder, Andrew Zawacki, and many others.

]]> 445635 4.01 182 17 228118 3.97 326 35 2006 862389 1558495851 9781558495852 7 <![CDATA[My Soviet Union: Poems]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178991515m/862389.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178991515s/862389.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/862389.My_Soviet_Union_Poems 4.23 60 This is a book of location and dis-location, intent and inaction, struggle and failure, restraint and mania, love and anger, savagery and healing, grief and merriment, elegy and ode. Technically, the poems—often litanies—are marked by syntactical variation, recurring imagery, paradoxical statement, cultural idioms, shifts between high and low diction, a carnivalesque sense of humor, and an elliptical approach to exposition. The speaker also takes on the identities of various personae in the book, including Joseph Cornell, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Pol Pot, a vaudevillian, a movie extra, minor dictators, vagrants, ambigendered lovers, and a lighthouse keeper on an uninhabited island.

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