The FSG Poetry Anthology

Hardback

Main Details

Title The FSG Poetry Anthology
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Various
Edited by Jonathan Galassi
Edited by Robyn Creswell
By (author) Various Authors
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 241,Width 163
Category/GenrePoetry anthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9780374159115
ClassificationsDewey:808.81
Audience
General
Illustrations Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines

Publishing Details

Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Publication Date 23 November 2021
Publication Country United States

Description

To celebrate FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list-past, present, and future Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. to the company. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux's first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Louise Gluck, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Grace Paley, Carl Phillips, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, James Schuyler, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, James Wright, and Adam Zagajewski. Today, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, Ishion Hutchinson, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Valzhyna Mort, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel are among the poets who are continuing FSG's tradition as a discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary voices. This anthology is a wide-ranging showcase of some of the best poems published in America over the past three generations. It is also a sounding of poetry's present and future.

Author Biography

Jonathan Galassi is the president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Robyn Creswell, who edits poetry at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, teaches Arabic literature at Yale.

Reviews

This handsomely designed volume . . . draws on the publisher's storied history of printing the world's finest poets, including Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Yusef Komunyakaa and Louise Gluck. . . . The poems -- drawn from more than 100 writers -- run in chronological order, but there's nothing textbooky about the elegant presentation. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post