{"product_id":"more-truly-and-more-strange-100-contemporary-american-self-portrait-poems-9780892555062","title":"More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur rampant selfie-taking moment (via Snapchat, Tinder, and YouTube, e.g.) showcases what American poetry has expressed for centuries: a national impulse for self-portraiture. This stylish anthology collects astonishing self-portrait poems--brilliantly divided into smart, revealing sections--from the mid-twentieth century through today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy experiencing the various ways that our greatest poets re-render and distort themselves, we see America's glorious struggle with defining itself. John Ashbery, Stephanie Burt, Lucie Brock-Broido, Natalie Diaz, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Donika Kelly, Gregory Pardlo, Sylvia Plath, Carl Phillips, Mark Strand, Tracy K. Smith, Natasha Tretheway, Charles Wright, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpaar, Lisa Russ:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Russ Spaar\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of many collections of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eOrexia\u003c\/em\u003e (Persea, 2017), and a collections of essays, \u003cem\u003eThe Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the editor of\u003cem\u003e Monticello in Mind: Fifty Contemporary Poems on Jefferson\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eAcquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eAll that Mighty Heart: London Poems\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a poetry columnist for \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e and Professor of English at the University of Virginia.","brand":"Persea Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51474972082450,"sku":"9780892555062","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_68d6ca40-ce32-46d8-907a-ef7e58334223.jpg?v=1752584284","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/more-truly-and-more-strange-100-contemporary-american-self-portrait-poems-9780892555062","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}