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Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.

From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.

Other poets include:
Sylvia Plath
James Merrill
Amy clampitt
Jorie Graham
W. S. Merwin
Charles Simic
Allen Ginsberg
Frank O'Hara
Anne Sexton
Robert Creeley
Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver
Robert Pinsky
Mark Strand
Denise Levertov
Richard Wilbur
May Swenson
Michael Palmer
Mark Doty
Yusef Komunyakaa

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: 08/04/2003
      ISBN13: 9781400030934, 978-1400030934
      ISBN10: 1400030935
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.

      From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.

      Other poets include:
      Sylvia Plath
      James Merrill
      Amy clampitt
      Jorie Graham
      W. S. Merwin
      Charles Simic
      Allen Ginsberg
      Frank O'Hara
      Anne Sexton
      Robert Creeley
      Sharon Olds
      Mary Oliver
      Robert Pinsky
      Mark Strand
      Denise Levertov
      Richard Wilbur
      May Swenson
      Michael Palmer
      Mark Doty
      Yusef Komunyakaa

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