$35.49
Author: McClatchy J. D.
Brand: Vintage
Color: Black
Edition: Revised
Format: Illustrated
Number Of Pages: 656
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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
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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 Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry’s daring energies and its tender understandings.
From the Back Cover
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 Gluck, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry’s daring energies and its tender understandings.
About the Author
J. D. McCLATCHY is the author of seven previous collections of poetry and of three collections of prose. He has also edited numerous books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and has written a number of opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and elsewhere. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where he served as president from 2009 to 2012. McClatchy teaches at Yale University and is editor of The Yale Review.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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
from The Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46,
76, 77, 143, 257, 384)
RANDALL JARRELL
90 North
Eighth Air Force
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
The Woman at the Washington Zoo
Cinderella
Next Day
Well Water
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Masts at Dawn
Birth of Love
Rattlesnake Country
Evening Hawk
CHARLES OLSON
The Kingfishers
J. V. CUNNINGHAM
For My Contemporaries
To My Wife
from ACentury of Epigrams (29, 53, 55, 62, 76)
ROBERT HAYDEN
Night, Death, Mississippi
Frederick Douglass
Middle Passage
JEAN GARRIGUE
Amsterdam Letter
Cracked Looking Glass
After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs
MAY SWENSON
Teleology
Unconscious Came a Beauty
Stone Gullets
Staying at Ed’s Place
Strawberrying
ROBERT DUNCAN
APoem Beginning with a Line by Pindar
Styx
WILLIAM MEREDITH
The Illiterate
Thoughts on One’s Head
Consequences
Country Stars
The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
HOWARD NEMEROV
Storm Windows
Writing
Money
The Dependencies
Learning the Trees
Because You Asked About the Line
Between Prose and Poetry
The War in the Air
RICHARD WILBUR
ABaroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
Looking into History
Release Date: 08-04-2003
Package Dimensions: 32x202x454
