Open AccessBook Review: American Poets and Poetry: From the Colonial Era to the Present
Author(s) -
Arianne HartsellGundy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n1.72a
Subject(s) - encyclopedia , poetry , american poetry , colonialism , literature , history , cover (algebra) , art history , art , philosophy , archaeology , linguistics , engineering , mechanical engineering
In many ways American Poets and Poetry: From the Colonial Era to the Present is a condensed version of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood, 2006). They have the same editors, many of the same contributors, and there is overlap in the poets and topics covered. The earlier encyclopedia was five volumes and much more comprehensive, but this new work does cover some contemporary poets not found in the previous work, such as Natasha Trethewey, and has more recent information about some of the still living poets.