{"product_id":"poems-of-new-york-9780375415043","title":"Poems of New York","description":"New York City has always been a larger-than-life, half-mythical place, and this collection offers an appropriately stunning mosaic of its many incarnations in poetry-ranging from Walt Whitman's exuberant celebrations to contemporary poets' moving responses to the September 11 attack on the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll the icons of this greatest of cities swirl and flash through these pages: taxis and subways, bridges and skyscrapers, ghettos and roof gardens and fire escapes, from the South Bronx to Coney Island to Broadway to Central Park, and from Langston Hughes's Harlem to James Merrill's Upper East Side. Wallace Stevens, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Ginsberg, and Audre Lorde are just a few of the poets gathered here, alongside a host of new young voices. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEncompassing as many moods, characters, and scenes as this multifaceted, ever-changing metropolis has to offer, \u003ci\u003ePoems of New York\u003c\/i\u003e will be treasured by literary lovers of New York everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Hun Schmidt, a former poetry editor at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, is the editor of the acclaimed anthology \u003ci\u003ePoems of New York\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Poets Laureate Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in New York City and currently teaches American literature at Sarah Lawrence College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503280296210,"sku":"9780375415043","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6dc06e57-5d09-4c69-b78e-066175188b14.jpg?v=1730787219","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/poems-of-new-york-9780375415043","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}