{"product_id":"roads-taken-contemporary-vermont-poetry-paperback","title":"Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSydney Lea\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChard Deniord\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eDan Chiasson\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its mystical landscape and fiercely self-reliant citizenry, Vermont has inspired poets from its earliest days. This anthology of contemporary Vermont poets represents a wide range of accomplished voices--both young and old, both renowned and relatively unestablished. Their poems offer news, in Ezra Pound's words, that stays news, and they do so in a wide variety of forms and subjects. While there is no such thing as a particular brand of Vermont poetry, the poems in this volume claim Vermont as their place of origin, bearing witness to the remarkably rich and ongoing legacy of the state's poetic tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSydney Lea\u003c\/b\u003e was Vermont's 2011-2015 Poet Laureate. He has published numerous books in multiple genres, among them \u003ci\u003ePursuit of a Wound\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. He is the founder of \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e and has been awarded Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Guggenheim fellowships; he has taught at Dartmouth, Yale, Wesleyan, Vermont, and Middlebury colleges, as well as at Switzerland's Franklin College and Budapest's National Hungarian University. His stories, poems, essays and criticism have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times, Sports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e and many other periodicals, as well as in more than fifty anthologies. He lives in Newbury, Vermont, and he is active both in community literacy efforts and in environmental conservation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChard deNiord\u003c\/b\u003e is the Poet Laureate of Vermont and author of five books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eInterstate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Double Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNight Mowing\u003c\/i\u003e. His book of essays and interviews with seven senior American poets (Galway Kinnell, Ruth Stone, Lucille Clifton, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Jack Gilbert, and Maxine Kumin) titled \u003ci\u003eSad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on Twentieth Century American Poets \u003c\/i\u003ewas published by Marick Press in 2011. His poems and essays have appeared widely in such journals and anthologies as \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review, The New England Review, The American Poetry Review, The New Ohio Review, AGNI, The Harvard Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalmagundi.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the co-founder and former program director of the New England College MFA Program in Poetry and a trustee of the Ruth Stone Trust. For the past 19 years he has taught English and Creative Writing at Providence College where he is Professor of English. He lives in Westminster West, Vt. with his wife, Liz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Chiasson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books, most recently a book of poems, \u003ci\u003eWhere's the Moon, There's the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e (Knopf 2010). He is the poetry critic for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and a frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. Chiasson was born and raised in Burlington, Vermont, attended Amherst College and received a PhD from Harvard University. He is a professor of English at Wellesley College.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47401622470834,"sku":"9780998260471","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/364c40c8f483e1359e31d3899e6b9f8d.webp?v=1778097296","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/roads-taken-contemporary-vermont-poetry-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}