Walk on the Wild Side: Urban American Poetry Since 1975

Brief Description: In cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, poetry is reclaiming a place in our culture, as evidenced by hundreds of readings each month. With the city as its focus, Walk on the Wild Side is the first anthology to tap into the urban resurgence of American poetry. Features 120 poems. Jacket Description/Back: "Walk on the Wild Side", the first anthology to plumb the maze of American urban life, gives us the city in all its forms: ethnic, economic, religious, political, sexual, intellectual. Poet and novelist Nicholas Christopher has chosen 115 poems from sixty poets, representing more than twenty cities. These are not just poems "about" cities, or with the city as subject; they filter and radiate the diversity and vitality of today's cities, from the electric night of New York to the sun-blanked sprawl of Los Angeles, from the factories of Pittsburgh to the waterfront of New Orleans. A kinetic mix of new voices and established writers, "Walk on the Wild Side" presents the timeless themes of poetry through the prism of our unique urban experience. Marc Notes: Anthology; Announced in cloth at $ 27.50Publisher Marketing: "Walk on the Wild Side," the first anthology to plumb the maze of American urban life, gives us the city in all its forms: ethnic, economic, religious, political, sexual, intellectual. Poet and novelist Nicholas Christopher has chosen 115 poems from sixty poets, representing more than twenty cities. These are not just poems "about" cities, or with the city as subject; they filter and radiate the diversity and vitality of today's cities, from the electric night of New York to the sun-blanked sprawl of Los Angeles, from the factories of Pittsburgh to the waterfront of New Orleans. A kinetic mix of new voices and established writers, "Walk on the Wild Side" presents the timeless themes of poetry through the prism of our unique urban experience. Review Citations:

Booklist 04/01/1994 pg. 1418 (EAN 9780020427254, Paperback)

Library Journal 03/01/1994 (EAN 9780020427254, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1995 pg. 50 (EAN 9780020427254, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 358 (EAN 9780020427254, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 454 (EAN 9780020427254, Paperback)

Library Journal 03/01/1994 pg. 91 (EAN 9780684196237, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 01/31/1994 pg. 77 (EAN 9780684196237, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 05/02/1994 pg. 298 (EAN 9780684196237, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1995 pg. 50 (EAN 9780684196237, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 351 (EAN 9780684196237, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Christopher, Nicholas NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER is the author of seven volumes of poetry, five novels, and a cultural history of film noir. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, Esquire, the Nation, the New Republic, the Paris Review, and other notable magazines. A professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, he lives in New York City.