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The Vintage book of contemporary American poetry / edited and with an introduction by J.D. McClatchy.
LIBRA PS615 .V46 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 617 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition, newly revised and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- This book is a newly revised and expanded collection of poems from seventy-five of America's iconic poets of the past half-century, from Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, from Sylvia Plath to Heather McHugh to Yusef Komunyakaa. It gathers together poetry from every region of the country and from the past fifty years.
- Contents:
- Robert Lowell
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Theodore Roethke
- John Berryman
- Randall Jarrell
- Robert Penn Warren
- Charles Olson
- J.V. Cunningham
- Robert Hayden
- Jean Garrigue
- May Swenson
- Robert Duncan
- William Meredith
- Howard Nemerov
- Richard Wilbur
- Mona Van Duyn
- Howard Moss
- James Dickey
- Anthony Hecht
- James Schuyler
- Denise Levertov
- Richard Hugo
- Edgar Bowers
- Carolyn Kizer
- Donald Justice
- Frank O'Hara
- David Wagoner
- Robert Creeley
- Allen Ginsberg
- W.D. Snodgrass
- James Merrill
- W.S. Merwin
- A.R. Ammons
- John Ashbery
- James Wright
- Galway Kinnell
- Anne Sexton
- Philip Levine
- Irving Feldman
- John Hollander
- Richard Howard
- Adrienne Rich
- Gary Snyder
- Sylvia Plath
- Mark Strand
- Charles Wright
- Audre Lorde
- Mary Oliver
- Jay Wright
- C.K. Williams
- Charles Simic
- Michael S. Harper
- Frank Bidart
- Robert Pinsky
- Robert Hass
- Amy Clampitt
- Dave Smith
- Marilyn Hacker
- William Matthews
- Sharon Olds
- Louise Glock
- Sandra McPherson
- Michael Palmer
- Ellen Bryant Voigt
- Kay Ryan
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Heather McHugh
- Edward Hirsch
- Jorie Graham
- Rita Dove
- Mark Doty
- Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- Henri Cole
- Li-Young Lee
- Carl Phillips.
- Notes:
- "A Vintage original"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-607).
- Other Format:
- Online version: Vintage book of contemporary American poetry.
- ISBN:
- 1400030935
- 9781400030934
- 141769081X
- 9781417690817
- OCLC:
- 51962046
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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