The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 8, 2003
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- Who it’s for
- A wide-ranging anthology brings four decades of American poetry into vivid, tender conversation.
- Themes
- Contemporary American poetry, Poetic daring, Tender understanding
- Genres
- Poetry Anthologies, American Poetry
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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.
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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
A Living Chorus
A wide-ranging anthology brings four decades of American poetry into vivid, tender conversation.
Come here for
- Poets from Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop to Louise Glück
- Daring energies alongside tender understandings
Expect
- Poems gathered from every region of the country
- A varied encounter with poetry across forty years
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 93% |
|---|---|
| Poetry Anthologies | 90% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Poetry Anthologies
- American Poetry
- Authors
- J. D. McClatchy
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 8, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Contemporary American poetry · Poetic daring · Tender understanding
- Reading lane
- Poetry Anthologies