Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection 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 KomunyakaaINTRODUCTION A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION, 2003 ROBERT LOWELL The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Memories of West Street and Lepke Man and Wife Skunk Hour The Mouth of the Hudson For the Union Dead Waking Early Sunday Morning History The Nihilist as Hero Reading Myself Obit Fishnet Dolphin Epilogue ELIZABETH BISHOP The Bight Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance At the Fishhouses The Shampoo Brazil, January 1, 1502 Under the Window: Ouro Prêto The Armadillo Filling Station In the Waiting Room One Art Poem THEODORE ROETHKE Cuttings Root Cellar The Shape of the Fire The Waking I Knew a Woman In a Dark Time JOHN BERRYMAN The Moon and the Night and the Men fromThe Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46, 76, 77, 143, 257, 384)
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