Essays originally written over the past thirty years.
Selected for both popularity and literary quality, the compilation includes Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," and Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn," as well as poems by ...
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. 1935 Stevens frequently vacationed in Key West, the largest and most remote and southerly of the Florida Keys, ...
Presents a diverse sample of twentieth-century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.
Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie.
"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers.
Fifty Years of American Poetry gives readers the opportunity to hear familiar voices and new ones--and encounter the great American poems that have captured both our minds and our hearts.
[Table of Contents continued] Gesture by a lady with an assumed name; At Thomas Hardy's birthplace, 1953; Saint Judas; Confession to J. Edgar Hoover; Lying in a hammock at William...
OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES John Ashbery, editor, The Best American Poetry 1988 Donald Hall, editor, The Best American Poetry 1989 Jorie Graham, editor, The Best American Poetry 1990 Mark Strand, editor, The Best American Poetry 1991 ...
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 ...