Streetlights: Poetry of Urban Life in Modern English Tanka was edited by Michael McClintock and Denis M. Garrison. from the back cover . . . A companion anthology to Landfall: Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka (Modern English Tanka Press, 2007), Streetlights goes beyond the customary polemics of “urban hell” literature to convey the human dimensions of life in the city, town, and suburban “forest”—the tones, moods, attitudes and emotional velocities of the present day . . . The poems found here weave into their lyrics the places and things of modern city life—its harmonies and dissonance, its quiet sanctuaries and noisy intersections, its headlines, politics, popular culture, and enduring issues about who we are and where we might be going . . . Fully exhibiting the power and range of the tanka as a short poem in English, here are song and image that may stand beside the great urban poetry of Whitman and Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg and Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance and the Beat Generation. —Michael McClintock, from “A Short Preface for Streetlights” Available at Lulu.com. • Back to the Main Books page.