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An American Renga
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
80 pages
ISBN: 0374132135
EAN: 9780374132132
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
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-soldier’s
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 Hass’s “greeny April” on
the Pacific coast.
All proceeds from sales go to
America: Now and Here.
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