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Book SynopsisA comprehensive anthology of poetry by American gays, lesbians, bisexual, and transgendered persons. It includes representative poems from over 100 writers from pre-colonial Native America and Hawaii to the end of the Second World War.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Anonymous Songs and Chants
Hawaii
Native America
Cowboy
Voodoo
Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1883)
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867)
Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
George Henry Boker (1823-1890)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899)
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
We'wah (1849-1896)
Edgar Saltus (1855-1921)
Henry Fuller (1857-1929)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
George Santayana (1863-1952)
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
Hasteen Klah (1867-1937)
Jessie B. Rittenhouse (1869-1949)
Willa Cather (1873-1947)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
David O'Neil (1874-1947)
Rose O'Neill (1874-1944)
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
Helen Hay Whitney (1876-1944)
Esther M. Clark (1876-?)
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972)
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943)
Douglas Malloch (1877-1938)
Persis M. Owen (?-?)
Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949)
John Erskine (1879-1951)
Angeline Weld Grimké (1880-1958)
Witter Bynner (1881-1968)
Walter de Casseres (1881-1900)
Mina Loy (1882-1966)
Edward Slocum (1882-1946)
Badger Clark (1883-1957)
Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962)
William Alexander Percy (1885-1952)
H.D. (1886-1961)
Leonard Bacon (1887-1954)
Samuel Loveman (1887-1976)
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Scudder Middleton (1888-1959)
Antoinette Scudder (1888-1958)
Willard Austin Wattles (1888-1950)
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
James Fenimore Cooper, Jr. (1892-1918)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1968)
Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)
Robert Hillyer (1895-1961)
Robert McAlmon (1895-1956)
Bernice Kenyon (1897-?)
John Wheelwright (1897-1940)
Elsa Gidlow (1898-?)
Royal Murdoch (1898-1981)
Hart Crane (1899-1933)
Lynn Riggs (1899-1954)
Robert Francis (1901-1987)
Glenway Wescott (1901-1987)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Edwin Denby (1903-1983)
Frank Belknap Long (1903-?)
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987)
W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
Hubert Creekmore (1907-1966)
Lincoln Kirsten (1907-1996)
Parker Tyler (1907-1974)
Frederic Prokosch (1908-1989)
Gale Wilhelm (1908-1991)
Charles Henri Ford (1909-2002)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
Paul Goodman (1911-1972)
Willard Maas (1911-1971)
James Broughton (1913-1999)
Robert Friend (1913-?)
Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)
Alicia Kay Smith (1913-?)
Owen Dodson (1914-1983)
Dunstan Thompson (1918-1975)
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Author Index
Title Index
