American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry Rita L. Lampkin and fruitcake

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Publisher: Jennifer Altman

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American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry Rita L. Lampkin and fruitcakeAs Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus in American Hybrid is on the blend; the more than seventy poets featured here including Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth, and Lyn Hejinian have found