Uncommon wealth
Subtitle: an anthology of poetry in English
By: edited by Neil Besner, Deborah Schnitzer, and Alden Turner.
Contributors: Besner, Neil Kalman, 1949-; Schnitzer, Deborah, 1950-; Turner, Alden Rolfe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 811
Subjects: English poetry.; American poetry.; English poetry -- English-speaking countries.
Description: "The poems in Uncommon Wealth were written over a period of four hundred years by four hundred and twenty-six authors from countries and territories on almost every continent. Beginning with the early colonial period, British, American, and Canadian poetry is represented alongside the work of poets from the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, South Asia, and indigenous peoples' communities.

Uncommon Wealth offers readers new ways of exploring poetic practice and changing forms of poetic expression in English from various regional, national, and international perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.

"In addition to classical works of poetry - by Shakespeare, Bradstreet, Keats, Eliot, Whitman, and Plath, to name but a few - Uncommon Wealth features an extraordinary cross-section of both canonical and less familiar texts. Readers will encounter Henry Kelsey's 'Prologue', Sarojini Naidu's 'Bangle-Sellers', Sojournor Truth's 'Ain't I a Woman?', and the Iroquois Confederacy's 'Condolence Ceremony'. An international selection of the work of poets, both established and emerging, is included: Simon J.

Ortiz, Amelia Blossom House, Thomas King, Sujata Bhatt, Kojo Laing, M. Nourbese Philip, Sheenagh Pugh, Vikram Seth, David Dabydeen, Anne French, Li-Young Lee, Jackie Kay, Miguel Pinero, Kristjana Gunnars, Ray A. Young Bear, Joy Harjo, Susan Musgrave, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Christine Qunta, and many more."--BOOK JACKET.

"As the guiding principle shaping the content of Uncommon Wealth, the editors have included poems worth reading, discussing, and remembering - regardless of their positions in or out of a canon, or their indebtedness to local or foreign traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.