Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Di[...]

W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad surve[...]

THIS SPECIAL EDITION CELEBRATES twenty-five years of the "Best American Poetry "series, which has become an institution. "The Best American Poetry "is the most prestigious poetry publication in the United States and has been so almost from its inception in 1988. Hotly debated, keenly monitored, arde[...]

Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry through[...]

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essay[...]

An expanded anthology of poems by American poets, from Whitman and Bradstreet to Plath, Ginsberg, Ashbery, and beyond, reflects the literary traditions and achievements of three centuries as it covers the works of more than two hundred poets.[...]

This book restores the slaves' songs to their rightful place in American literature for their intrinsic value as lyric poetry, and as a touchstone of the American imagination.[...]

In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets.

From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born[...]

The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Comp[...]

"The Best American Poetry 1995" once again highlights the dazzling spectrum of style and subject matter to be found in the art today. Guest editor Richard Howard's accent is on discovery and surprise, and he has gleaned the most inventive and searching writing from a wide variety of literary journal[...]

Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, "The Best American Poetry" is the one indispensable volume for readers eager to follow what's new in poetry today. Sales continue to grow and plaudits keep coming in for this "high-voltage testament to the vitality of American poetry" "(Booklist)." Selected by [...]

With an award-winning poet as guest editor, a perennially popular collection of poetry offers 2000's finest poems drawn from a variety of sources, including works by John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, W. S. Merwin, and Susan Mitchell, and featuring each poet's commentary on their work. Simultaneous.[...]