The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

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 Gl ck, 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

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