This 10th anniversary edition of the popular anthology—the first
book ever published by Melville House—contains poems by forty-five
of some of the most important poets of the day, as well as some of
the literary world’s most dynamic young voices, all writing in New
York City in the year immediately following the World Trade Center
attacks.
After 9/11 poetry
was everywhere—on telephone poles, on firehouse walls, in the bus
shelters. People spontaneously turned to poetry to understand and
cope with the tragedy of the attack. Full of humor, love, rage and
fear, this diverse collection of poems attests to the power of poetry
to express and to heal the human spirit.
Featuring poems by
Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn; Best American Poetry series
editor David Lehman; National Book Award winner and New York State
Poet Jean Valentine; the first ever Nuyorican Slam-Poetry champ;
poets laureate of Brooklyn and Queens; and a poem and introduction by
National Book Award finalist Alicia Ostriker.
