Essays discuss issues in modern poetry, and look at the works of James Wright, David Ignatow, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Thomas McGrath, Robert Lowell, James Dickey, Galway Kinnell, and Donald Hall
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, ...
"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers.
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 ...
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.
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.
[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 ...
Provides more than twenty poems written by American poets, with brief introductory remarks.
Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day.
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.