Charles Harper Webb

Autore di Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology

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Charles Harper Webb is professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, as well as a psychotherapist in private practice. He has previously published a novel, The Wilderness Effect, and a book of poems, Reading the Water, and has edited two other collections of poetry.

Opere di Charles Harper Webb

Popolari Recenti

Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology (2002) 37 copie

Reading The Water (1997) 11 copie

Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) (2009) 10 copie

Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies (American Poets Continuum) (2001) 10 copie

Amplified Dog (2006) 7 copie

Hot Popsicles (Univ of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series) (2005) 7 copie

What Things Are Made Of (Pitt Poetry Series) (2013) 7 copie

Brain Camp (Pitt Poetry Series) (2015) 7 copie

Liver (Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (Series).) (1999) 6 copie

Stand Up Poetry: The Anthology (1994) 5 copie

Grand Passion: The Poetry of Los Angeles and Beyond (1995) 5 copie

A Weeb for All Seasons (1992) 3 copie

Stand Up poetry : the poetry of Los Angeles and beyond (1990) 2 copie

Everyday outrages : poems (1989) 2 copie

A Million MFAs Are Not Enough (2016) 2 copie

Ursula Lake (2022) 2 copie

Poetry That Heals (1991) 1 copia

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Opere correlate

The Best American Poetry 2006 (2006) — Collaboratore — 189 copie

The Best American Poetry 2007 (2007) — Collaboratore — 166 copie

The Best American Poetry 2009 (2009) — Collaboratore — 133 copie

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Premi e riconoscimenti: Whiting Writers' Award (1998)

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Stand Up Poetry: The Anthology di Charles Harper Webb

I picked this book up at a used book shop in Oakland for a buck and am so glad that I did. It features the work of sixty-six poets, many of whom I'd never heard of, but all sharing a kind of transparency, a lack of pretense, a strong desire to communicate, and with some sort of idea bursting to come out. Many of the poems were funny, none of them were of a strictly formal type (though that is not to say they were all free verse), and a lot of them took a pleasure in surprising the reader with an idea or image or choice of words. The anthology pre-dates the idea of poetry slams but it clearly anticipates that style of fierce vernacular poetry. I assume that many of these works were performed at some time, not only presented as words on a page. I think I'll be coming back to this little volume in the future to remember that there is a value in keeping things loose and down to earth equally as much as there can be in exploring things that are obscure and engaging in tricky wordplay.
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rmagahiz | Jul 9, 2020 |

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