Anthologies

co-edited by Joseph Coulson

Sound Bites, Big Ideas in Popular Music book cover

Sound Bites: Big Ideas in Popular Music, with essays on Harry Belafonte, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and Aretha Franklin.

Big Ideas in Popular Culture, 3 vol. set cover

Big Ideas in Popular Culture, 3 volume set, includes Sound Bites (Music), Double Features (Film), and Tube Talk (Television).

Modern American Poetry book cover

Modern American Poetry, from Walt Whitman to Li-Young Lee, with an introduction, “How to Read a Poem,” by Coulson, Jim Baldwin, and Peter Temes.

Keeping Things Whole, Environmental Science book cover

Keeping Things Whole: Readings in Environmental Science, with essays by Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, Bill McKibben, and Gary Snyder.

Reader's Guide to Gatsby book cover

Reader’s Guide to The Great Gatsby, a short collection of hard-to-find reading and teaching resources for this seminal novel.

Reader's Guide to Scarlet Letter book cover

Reader’s Guide to The Scarlet Letter, a short collection of hard-to-find reading and teaching resources for this American classic.