{"product_id":"9780870134623","title":"The Sumac Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSumac\u003c\/i\u003e was a Michigan-based literary journal founded in 1968 by poets Dan Gerber and Jim Harrison; novelist Thomas McGuane joined the editorial staff in 1969 as the fiction editor. When the inaugural issue appeared, more than 250 American literary magazines were listed in \u003ci\u003eThe Directory of Magazines and Small Presses\u003c\/i\u003e; within three years, \u003ci\u003eSumac\u003c\/i\u003e rose to the first tier of these publications and was nationally recognized for its eclecticism and editorial quality. The \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e called it \"one of the best little magazines now being published.\"  \u003cbr\u003e       Remaining true to \u003ci\u003eSumac's\u003c\/i\u003e energetic catholicity, \u003ci\u003eThe Sumac Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is an anthology that contains poetry, experimental fiction, and works in translation that originally appeared in the magazine. Contributors include four Pulitzer Prize-winning poets—Galway Kinnell, Charles Simic, Louis Simpson, and Gary Snyder—along with Paul Blackburn, Hayden Carruth, Richard Hugo, Denise Levertov, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, and Diane Wakoski. There are early poems by Charles Simic, James Tate, and Michael Waters, as well as a complete section from Galaway Kinnell's classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e. Fiction is represented in \u003ci\u003eSumac\u003c\/i\u003e by a first-published Jim Heynen story \"Coyote\" and early prose by William Kittredge. Translations from Chinese, French, Spanish, and Russian bring to American readers the work of masters such as Tu Fu, Lorca, and Li Po. A variety of poetic forms are represented, including ghazals, narratives, suites, found poems, and the freest of free verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michigan State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015985676528,"sku":"9780870134623","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780870134623_p0.jpg?v=1763827207","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780870134623","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}