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Choice magazine 'outstanding title,' featuring over 1800 poems, along with introductions and notes, this three-volume set offers the most compelling and wide-ranging selection from the nation’s beginnings to the present day; also available in individual volumes." * LitHub *
"A
Choice magazine 'outstanding title,' featuring over 1800 poems, along with introductions and notes, this three-volume set offers the most compelling and wide-ranging selection from the nation’s beginnings to the present day; also available in individual volumes." * LitHub *
Table of Contents*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY
Introduction
GEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)
THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)
CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)
ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)
CARLOS BULOSAN (1911?-1956)
MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)
JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)
JULIA BE BURGOS (1914-1953)
RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)
GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)
ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)
ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)
JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)
DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)
MITSUYE YAMADA (b. 1923)
ROBERT CREELY (1926-2005)
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)
JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)
FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)
JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)
ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)
JOSEPH AWAD (1929-2009)
ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)
GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)
DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)
SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)
AMIRI BARAKA [LEROI JONES] (b. 1934)
DIANE DI PRIMA (b. 1934)
PART TWO: LATE-TWENTIETH CENTURY/EARLY-TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY POETRY
Introduction
SUSAN HOWE (b. 1937)
LUIS OMAR SALINAS (1937-2008)
MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)
KATHLEEN SPIVACK (b. 1938)
FRANK BIDART (b. 1939)
ROBERT PINKSY (b. 1940)
BOB DYLAN (b. 1941)
LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941)
ALEX KUO (b. 1941)
WANDA COLEMAN (b. 1946)
RAE ARMANTROUT (b. 1947)
LINDA HOGAN (b. 1947)
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947)
NATHANIEL MACKEY (b. 1947)
GERALD MCCARTHY (b. 1947)
W. D. EHRHART (b. 1948)
CAROL FROST (b. 1948)
VICTOR HERNÁNDEZ CRUZ (b. 1949)
CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950)
CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950)
MAURYA SIMON (b. 1950)
JOHN YAU (b. 1950)
RAY A. YOUNG BEAR (b. 1950)
THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA (1951-1982)
JOY HARJO (b. 1951)
RITA DOVE (b. 1952)
CHERRÍE MORAGA (b. 1952)
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE (b. 1952)
ALBERTO RÍOS (b. 1952)
GARY SOTO (b. 1952)
MARK DOTY (b. 1953)
HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953)
GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG (b. 1953)
ELMAZ ABINADER (b, 1954)
LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954)
MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955)
CATHY SONG (b. 1955)
AMY GERSTLER (b. 1956)
LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)
JUAN DELGADO (b. 1960)
BAO-LONG CHU (b. 1965)
SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)
QUEEN LATIFAH [DANA OWENS] (b. 1970)
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