More Truly and More Strange
More Truly and More Strange collects astonishing American self-portrait poems from the mid-twentieth century onward. Through them, we encounter the ways great poets have, often disarmingly, perceived themselves, and, through their self-portraits, an ever-evolving gallery of American identity. Contributors include John Ashbery, Mary Jo Bang, Lucie Brock-Broido, Jericho Brown, Stephanie Burt, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Chen Chen, Robert Creely, Natalie Díaz, Rita Dove, Nick Flynn, Jorie Graham, Edward Hirsch, Major Jackson, Saeed Jones, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Donika Kelly, W. S. Merwin, Frank O’Hara, Gregory Pardlo, Carl Phillips, Sylvia Plath, Patrick Rosal, sam sax, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, James Tate, Natasha Tretheway, and many others.