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Afternoons
Michael Anania, “Afternoons” from Selected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by Michael Anania. Used by permission of Asphodel Press/Acorn Alliance.
Source: Poetry (June 1975).
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Biography
In the afterword to his first book, the 1969 New Poetry Anthology, Michael Anania wrote, "There is little evidence that modernism is dead or even dying. The tradition of Pound, Eliot, Williams, Stevens and their contemporaries is very much alive." Anania's importance as a poet lies in how he preserves and develops this modernist tradition in American poetry. A deep commitment to modernism and the tradition of experimental, often . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Sciences, Nature, Relationships, Arts & Sciences
POET’S REGION U.S., Midwestern
SCHOOL / PERIOD Modern
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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