{"product_id":"the-open-door-one-hundred-poems-one-hundred-years-of-poetry-magazine-9780226104010","title":"The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of \"Poetry\" Magazine","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Harriet Monroe founded \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. \"May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!\" For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door-William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first years, Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan in 2011. And at the same time, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e continues to discover the new voices who will be read a century from now.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e's archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine's centennial, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed them to create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limitation to one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive-or even to offer the most familiar works-they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtaposition, echo across a century of poetry. Adrienne Rich appears alongside Charles Bukowski; poems by Isaac Rosenberg and Randall Jarrell on the two world wars flank a devastating Vietnam War poem by the lesser-known George Starbuck; August Kleinzahler's \"The Hereafter\" precedes \"Prufrock,\" casting Eliot's masterpiece in a new light. Short extracts from \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e's letters and criticism punctuate the verse selections, hinting at themes and threads and serving as guides, interlocutors, or dissenting voices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe resulting volume is an anthology like no other, a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and, most of all, a book that lovers of poetry will devour, debate, and keep close at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Share\u003c\/b\u003e, senior editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, is a poet and the author, editor, or translator of numerous books. \u003cb\u003eChristian Wiman\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003ePoetry \u003c\/i\u003efrom 2003 to 2013, is the author of three books of poetry, a volume of essays, and a memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409981018386,"sku":"9780226104010","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b41fbf11-39fc-430d-a5a3-05805b4c0735.jpg?v=1729296999","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-open-door-one-hundred-poems-one-hundred-years-of-poetry-magazine-9780226104010","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}