Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018

Description

1. xxxiv, 617 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. 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.

Alternative title

1. Contemporary American poetry

Subject

1. Poetry
2. 1900-1999
3. American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. American poetry.
2. Poetry

Contents

1. 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.

Note

1. "A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-607).

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain