The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America

by Jesse Zuba

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An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture

"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691271119

ISBN13:9780691271118

Release Date:July 2025

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:232 Pages

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