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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsCrossing State Linesby Bob Holman and Carol Muske-Dukes
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Crossing State Lines: An American Renga is a poetic relay race across the continent: fifty-four poets responding to ideas of America — and to each other. This is a collaborative journey of impressions — from the election and inauguration of President Obama, through foreclosures, job losses, chords of country music, and bombs in Baghdad, to a poet-soldiers rifle-sight in Afghanistan.
The renga itself, in the ancient tradition of Japanese linked verse, provides the form of this historic conversation among the poets, as they meditate, within ten lines, on a moment in America. Crossing State Lines begins with Robert Pinsky's recounting of a line of poetry by Lincoln as fall deepens and "maples / kindle in the East," and ends some five hundred lines later, with Robert Hasss "greeny April" on the Pacific coast. All proceeds from sales go to America: Now and Here. Synopsis:A collaborative poem about America, from fifty-four of our best poets.
Synopsis:A collaborative poem about America, from fifty-four of our best poets Crossing State Lines: An American Renga is a poetic relay race across the continent: fifty-four poets responding to ideas of America—and to each other. This is a collaborative journey of impressions—from the election and inauguration of President Obama, through foreclosures, job losses, chords of country music, and bombs in Baghdad, to a poet-soldiers rifle-sight in Afghanistan. The renga itself, in the ancient tradition of Japanese linked verse, provides the form of this historic conversation among the poets, as they meditate, within ten lines, on a moment in America. Crossing State Lines begins with Robert Pinskys recounting of a line of poetry by Lincoln as fall deepens and “maples / kindle in the East,” and ends some five hundred lines later, with Robert Hasss “greeny April” on the Pacific coast. All proceeds from sales go to America: Now and Here. About the AuthorThe renga was overseen by Bob Holman and Carol Muske-Dukes, co-curators of the poetry stream of America: Now and Here, which is bringing art and artists to large and small communities across America.
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