“Brooks has a command over both the colloquial and the more austere rhythms. . . . There is a range of form: quatrains, free verse, ballads, sonnets—all appropriately controlled.”—Rolfe Humphries, The New York Times Book Review
“[The] reporters are fearless, unpretentious, professional, vivid, and smart.” — The New Yorker
“[H]ere, after more than 200 years, is an easily accessible set of sacred writings for America’s civil religion—the adoration and veneration of the United States Constitution.” — Chicago Tribune
“Capacious, comprehensive, wide-ranging, and judiciously fair, the Library of America anthology presents the great body of American poetry in the century of the Louisiana Purchase, the Alamo, the Civil War, the expansion of the western…
Rediscover the great Harlem Renaissance poet’s first and only novel, an elegiac, elegantly realized coming-of-age tale.
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“The brilliance of this anthology is in the editor’s determination to showcase as many facets of L.A. as possible, warts, beauty marks, and all. In nearly 900 pages, editor Ulin presents excerpts from novels and short stories, poems,…