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POETRY ANTHOLOGY
The Poets of New Jersey
– From Colonial to Contemporary –
edited by Emanuel di Pasquale, Frank Finale, and Sander Zulauf
The Poets of New Jersey celebrates sixty-five extraordinary poets who
have lived and worked in New Jersey, from Colonial times to the present.
Many of the poets included in this anthology are among America's finest.
Stephen Dunn, the Pulitzer Prize poet, writes the Foreword; X. J.
Kennedy, the renowned poet, writes the Introduction.
The three editors, Emanuel di Pasquale, Frank Finale, and Sander
Zulauf, all poets themselves, had one simple criterion in compiling
the works: they "wanted to hear the pure, clear words of the poets who
have called this place home." They were interested in the sum of poetic
greatness distilled from life in this state—the poetry New Jersey poets have
written, whether New Jersey oriented or not.
The editors reached back to the earliest poets, including Philip Freneau,
the Revolutionary War's "Father of American Poetry"; Walt Whitman, the
"revolutionizer" of poetry; and Stephen Crane, the poet who bridged the
realists to the moderns. They included three key figures of modernism,
William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Kenneth Burke, as
well as their direct descendants—the poets of the Beat Generation—Allen
Ginsberg and Amiri Baraka. New Jersey's three other current Pulitzer
Prize poets, Yusef Komunyakaa, C. K. Williams, and Paul Muldoon are
also included. The result is a beautiful book of poetry for the ages.
Hardcover with dust jacket: $24.95
240 pages
Actual size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"
ISBN-13: 978-0-9632906-8-7
Softcover: $19.95
240 pages
Extended panel flaps
Actual size: 6" x 9"
ISBN-13: 978-0-9632906-9-4
Precious gold type and accents
