Status
Available
Genres
Collection
Publication
New York : Vintage Books, 2003. Second Edition.
Description
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.
User reviews
LibraryThing member AsYouKnow_Bob
A pretty high-powered anthology ("65 Outstanding Poets"); and while the selections are certainly impressive, I'm a bit perplexed just how Plath and Roethke (both d.1963) (...and Jarrell (d. 1965) and Berryman (d. 1972) and R.Lowell (d.1977) &c...) get included in a book of "Contemporary" poetry
Show More
first published in 1990. "27 years ago" strikes me as a rather over-liberal definition of "Contemporary". Show Less
LibraryThing member isetziol
Unsure about reading anything called "contemporary" poetry. Don't be. These poems are largely accessible, and most enjoyable.