false 172852 2 Anthology of Modern American Poetry contains more than 750 poems by 161 American poets, including many who have not been anthologized before. Spanning a period from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie, this collection is the first to review the twentieth century comprehensively. It presents not only the canonical poetry of the last hundred years but also numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. Uniquely comprehensive, Anthology of Modern American Poetry represents Robert Frost with 23 poems, Wallace Stevens with 22, and Marianne Moore with 14, including her most ambitious long poems. William Carlos Williams is represented not only by his exquisite short lyrics, but also with an experimental combination of poetry and prose. With 29 poems, Langston Hughes is given full treatment for the first time in any comprehensive anthology. Substantial selections by contemporary poets like John Ashbery, Sylvia Plath, Frank O'Hara, Philip Levine, Lucille Clifton, Judy Grahn, Adrian Louis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Martin Espada, and Sherman Alexie are also included. Anthology of Modern American Poetry is the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poem sequences. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry," William Carlos Williams's The Descent of Winter, Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree," Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead," Melvin Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia, Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence," Gwendolyn Brooks's "Gay Chaps at the Bar," Kenneth Rexroth's "The Love Poems of Marichiko," both Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" and his "Wichita Vortex Sutra," and both Adrienne Rich's "Shooting Script" and her "Twenty-One Love Poems" are all included in their entirety. Anthology of Modern American Poetry offers the most detailed annotations available in an anthology of this type. Many works benefit from specially commissioned research that provides students with such help as the identification of the inventive references in Melvin Tolson's poetry, translation of all foreign language passages, and illumination of obscure references. This is also the only American poetry anthology to present selected poems in the beautifully illustrated form in which they first appeared. In addition, an accompanying website featuring readings of poems and historical background is available at http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps. Ideal for courses in modern American poetry, modern American literature, modern or contemporary poetry, creative writing-poetry, and American studies, Anthology of Modern American Poetry introduces students to the last 100 years of our poetic heritage in a uniquely rich and provocative format. 166936 1999 Anthology of Modern American Poetry total:25|5:7|4:7|3:7|2:2|1:2| 25 90 37 5 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 07:51:47 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 06:21:55 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Feb 13 10:58:40 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 11:01:11 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Mar 12 07:32:05 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 12 07:35:05 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 10 20:23:47 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 21:25:17 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Jul 21 17:33:12 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 17:48:35 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Jun 08 18:33:11 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:33:11 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 29 20:36:34 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 20:36:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Apr 17 23:03:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 23:03:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Mar 11 16:54:10 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 16:54:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Feb 23 11:15:50 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 11:15:50 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 04 22:17:49 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:35:13 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 04 22:17:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 12:17:49 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 12:17:49 -0800 2009 0 0 true false Sat Dec 13 22:12:25 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 22:12:31 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Dec 07 22:57:17 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 22:57:17 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Thu Oct 09 17:27:40 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 17:27:40 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Sep 16 18:38:17 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 18:38:17 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Sep 14 11:57:37 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 11:57:37 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Wed Sep 03 03:04:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 03:04:00 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Aug 06 20:13:59 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 20:13:59 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sun Aug 03 09:31:18 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 09:31:18 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=172852