Contemporary American Poetry

Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you'll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, editor and Guggenheim fellow Donald Hall, describes the face of American poetry as subjective. The American poem "reveals through images not particular pain, but general subjective life ... The poet uses fantasy and distortion to express feeling."

• Author
• Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, Louis Simpson, Edgar Bowers, John Haines, Donald Justice, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, William Stafford, James Merrill, W. D. Snodgrass, A.R. Ammons, Allen Ginsberg, John Woods, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Galway Kinnell, W.S. Merwin, James Wright, Dudley Randall, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Edward Dorn, Gary Snyder, Sylvia Plath, Etheridge Knight, Michael Benedikt, Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, David Ignatow, Robert Lowell, Robert Duncan, Reed Whittemore, Howard Nemerov, Richard Wilbur, X.J. Kennedy, John Logan

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Penguin Books

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-058618-3

• EAN
• 9780140586183

• Genres
• poetry, anthologies

• Release date
• 1989