Edited by poets about poets, Contemporary American Poetry is a chronologically organized anthology covering major poets born after 1920.
| ISBN | 0321182820 | | Pages | 544 | | ISBN13 | 9780321182821
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Pearson Education (US) | | Weight (grammes) | 592 | | Imprint | Longman Inc | | Published in | New Jersey | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Penguin Academics | | Publication date | 13 Sep 2004 | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Library of Congress | 2004050143 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 811.608 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Preface. Introduction. Howard Nemerov (b. March 1, 1920, d. July 5, 1991). History of a Literary Movement. Goose-Fish. A Primer of the Daily Round. The Fourth of July. Mousemeal. The Human Condition. Charles Bukowski (b. August 16, 1920, d. March 9. 1994). my father. question and answer. young in new orleans. the great escape. Amy Clampitt (b. June 15, 1920, d. September 10, 1994). The Kingfisher. What the Light was Like. Iola, Kansas. Nothing Stays Put. Hayden Carruth (b. August 3, 1921). Woodsmoke at 70. Regarding Chainsaws. Pittsburgh. Richard Wilbur (b. March 1, 1921). The Pardon. Year's End. A Simile for her Smile. The Writer. Mind. Love Calls Us to the Things of the World. Advice to a Prophet. Junk. Playboy. Hamlen Brook. For C. Mona Van Duyn (b. May 9, 1921). Letters from a Father. Frederick Morgan (b. April 25, 1922). Washington Square. James Dickey (b. February 2, 1923, d. January 19, 1997). The Performance. The Heaven of Animals. Sheep Child. Adultery. Anthony Hecht (b. January 16, 1923). The Dover Bitch. A Hill. "More Light! More Light!" Third Avenue in Sunlight. The Feast of Stephen. The Book of Yolek. Alan Dugan (b. February 12, 1923). On a Seven-Day Diary. Love Song: I and Thou. Closing Time at 2nd Ave. Deli. Surviving Hurricane. For Kafka. Daniel Hoffman (b. April 3, 1923). Rats. Bob. Violence. Richard Hugo (1923). Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg. My Buddy. Bay of Recovery. Denise Levertov (b. October 24, 1923, d. December 20, 1999). The Secret. What Were They Like? Song for Ishtar. Louis Simpson (b. March 27, 1923). American Classic. My Father in the Night Commanding No. To the Western World. American Poetry. Physical Universe. Spry. Edgar Bowers (b. March 2, 1924, d. February 4, 2000). Mary. For Louis Pasteur. A Fragment: The Cause. Edward Field (b. June 7, 1924). Nancy. Bride of Frankenstein. The Dog Sitters. John Haines (b. June 29. 1924). Life in an Ashtray. Rain Country. Gerald Stern (b. February 22, 1925). Behaving Like a Jew. The Dancing. The Sounds of Wagner. Maxine Kumin (b. June 6, 1925). At the End of the Affair. Woodchucks. Morning Swim. Noted in the New York Times. Donald Justice (b. August 12, 1925). Counting the Mad. Men at Forty. But That Is Another Story. First Death. American Scenes (1904-1905). Carolyn Kizer (b. December 10, 1925). The Ungrateful Garden. Bitch. From "Pro Femina," Three. On a Line from Sophocles. W. D. Snodgrass (b. January 5, 1926). Mementos, I. The Examination. After Experience Taught Me. A. R. Ammons (b. February 18, 1926, d. February 25, 2001). Corson's Inlet. First Carolina Said-Song. The Foot Washing. So I Said I Am Ezra. Robert Bly (b. December 23, 1926). After Drinking All Night With a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem. Where We Must Look For Help. For my son Noah, 10 Years Old. The Scandal. James Merrill (b. March 3, 1926, d. February 6, 1995). Charles on Fire. The Broken Home. Days of 1964. Casual Wear. Robert Creeley (b. May 21, 1926). Naughty Boy. I Know a Man. Oh No. Stomping With Catullus. The Language. The World. Allen Ginsberg (b. June 3, 1926, d. April 5, 1997). A Supermarket in California . From Howl, I. America. Frank O'Hara (b. June 27, 1926, d. July 25, 1966). Why I Am Not a Painter. The Day Lady Died. Poem. John Ashbery (b. July 28, 1927). Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape. Daffy Duck in Hollywood. The Other Tradition. Paradoxes and Oxymorons. Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927). After Making Love We Hear Footsteps. The Bear. Little Sleep's Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight. Goodbye. Saint Francis and the Sow. W. S. Merwin (b. September 30. 1927). The Drunk in the Furnace. For the Anniversary of My Death. The Last One. The Judgement of Paris. Yesterday. James Wright (b. December 13, 1927, d. March 25, 1980). Saint Judas. A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's Shack. Autumn
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