by Elizabeth Schmidt · A.A. Knopf · tapa dura · ISBN 9780375415043
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«Poems of New York» is an anthology of poetry about New York, selected by Elizabeth Schmidt and published by A.A. Knopf in hardback (256 pages).
Anthology of poems portraying New York from Walt Whitman's celebrations to elegies for 9/11. It traverses taxis, subways, bridges, skyscrapers and parks, and neighbourhoods such as Harlem, the Bronx, Coney Island or Central Park, with voices ranging from Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden and Dorothy Parker to Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde and Elizabeth Bishop.
Published in 2002 and written in English, it is part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series.
For lovers of poetry and New York, and for those seeking a literary view of the city.
