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Bantam (1970), Mass Market Paperback, 768 pages
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An anthology of poems by such authors as Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Sara Teasdale, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings, Stanley Kunitz, Gwendolyn Brooks, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, and several others.
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LibraryThing member aulsmith
This anthology had a lot of interesting poets in it. My problem was how to read it. It is arrange chronologically by the year of the author's birth. Sometimes the poets sitting near each other have a lot in common either in period or style or interests, sometimes not. So if you read in order, which
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is what I tried to do, you're often jerked around from one school of poetry to another only to go back to the first a few poets later. If you just look for your favorites, you miss the point which is to discover gems by little known poets. I finally gave up, though I did meet some interesting new (to me) voices on the way. Show Less
LibraryThing member languagehat
Still my favorite anthology of modern American poetry; my only complaint would be that Carruth shortchanges himself by including only a few haiku from his own work -- it took me years to realize what a great poet he was. (The title is from Stevens's "Evening Without Angels.")
LibraryThing member MaggyDirt
This is a fantastic book for any budding writer or reader. I carried this book everwhere I went for the longest time, and I still find it inspiring. I'd be lost without it.
LibraryThing member jwhenderson
Inspirational and a source of renewal, this anthology is a beautiful collection of essential twentieth century poetry. Hayden Carruth presents both the well known and less well known poets of our age and in doing so delights the reader. I regularly dip into this volume for the refreshing west wind
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LibraryThing member abirdman
A large and insightful collection of American 20th century poetry, excellently selected and edited by Hayden Carruth, that was, unfortunately, released only in a grim and very fat little mass-market paperback edition. Every copy I've ever seen, mine included, was dog-eared, stained, and stuffed
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with little scraps of paper as bookmarks to recall favorites. Show Less
LibraryThing member Chris.Wolak
This collection was used in a poetry writing class that I took in college (in 1989?). I no longer have my copy, but when I recently came across the book at Barnes & Noble it brought back fond memories.
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Original publication date
1970-11
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768 p.; 6.92 inches
ISBN
0553262637 / 9780553262636
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indexed 2439/45
poets:
robert frost, carl sandburg, vachel lindsay, wallace stevens, mina loy, william carlos williams, sara teasdale, ezra pound, elinor wylie, h.d., hilda doolittle, robinson jeffers, marianne moore
t.s. eliot, john crowe ransom, conrad aiken, john peale bishop, archibald macleish, edna st. vincent millay, e.e. cummings, charles reznikoff, genevieve taggard, mark van doren, thomas hornsby ferril
louise bogan, john wheelwright, horace gregory, hart crane, allen tate, yvor winters, robert francis, kenneth fearing, langston hughes, countee cullen, lorine niedecker, richard eberhart, louis zukofsky
stanley kunitz, kenneth rexroth, robert penn warren, richmond lattimore, theodore roethke, robert fitzgerald, charles olson, winfield townley scott, elizabeth bishop, j.v. cunningham, paul goodman
josephine miles, kenneth patchen, hyam plutzik, brother antoninus, hy sobiloff, robert hayden, muriel rukeyser, delmore schwartz, karl shapiro, john berryman, owen dodson, gean garrigue
george hitchcock, david ignatow, randall jarrell, weldon kees, james laughlin, william stafford, thomas merton, henry rago, thomas mcgrath, theodore weiss, gwendolyn brooks, robert lowell, william bronk
robert duncan, lawrence ferlinghetti, may swenson, hayden carruth, richard wilbur, marie ponsot, james dickey, mitchell goodman, arthur gregor, anthony hecht, daniel hoffman, denise levertov, louis simpson
philip whalen, cid corman, harvey shapiro, philip booth, donald justice, bob kaufman, carolyn kizer, kenneth koch, jack spicer, a.r. ammons, paul blackburn, robert bly, robert creeley, allen ginsberg
james merrill, stanley moss, frank o'hara, david wagoner, john ashberry, larry eigner, galway kinnell, philip lamantia, w.s. merwin, james wright, bill anderson, philip levine, anne sexton, edward dorn
adrienne rich, jonathan williams, gregory corso, joel oppenheimer, gary snyder, george starbuck, patricia low, sylvia plath, david ray, robert sward, wendell berry, leroi jones, jean valentine
john wieners, paul zimmer, clayton eshleman, ronald johnson, robert kelly, jim harrison, diane wakoski, lou libsitz, david lawson, joel sloman
indexed 2439/45
poets:
robert frost, carl sandburg, vachel lindsay, wallace stevens, mina loy, william carlos williams, sara teasdale, ezra pound, elinor wylie, h.d., hilda doolittle, robinson jeffers, marianne moore
t.s. eliot, john crowe ransom, conrad aiken, john peale bishop, archibald macleish, edna st. vincent millay, e.e. cummings, charles reznikoff, genevieve taggard, mark van doren, thomas hornsby ferril
louise bogan, john wheelwright, horace gregory, hart crane, allen tate, yvor winters, robert francis, kenneth fearing, langston hughes, countee cullen, lorine niedecker, richard eberhart, louis zukofsky
stanley kunitz, kenneth rexroth, robert penn warren, richmond lattimore, theodore roethke, robert fitzgerald, charles olson, winfield townley scott, elizabeth bishop, j.v. cunningham, paul goodman
josephine miles, kenneth patchen, hyam plutzik, brother antoninus, hy sobiloff, robert hayden, muriel rukeyser, delmore schwartz, karl shapiro, john berryman, owen dodson, gean garrigue
george hitchcock, david ignatow, randall jarrell, weldon kees, james laughlin, william stafford, thomas merton, henry rago, thomas mcgrath, theodore weiss, gwendolyn brooks, robert lowell, william bronk
robert duncan, lawrence ferlinghetti, may swenson, hayden carruth, richard wilbur, marie ponsot, james dickey, mitchell goodman, arthur gregor, anthony hecht, daniel hoffman, denise levertov, louis simpson
philip whalen, cid corman, harvey shapiro, philip booth, donald justice, bob kaufman, carolyn kizer, kenneth koch, jack spicer, a.r. ammons, paul blackburn, robert bly, robert creeley, allen ginsberg
james merrill, stanley moss, frank o'hara, david wagoner, john ashberry, larry eigner, galway kinnell, philip lamantia, w.s. merwin, james wright, bill anderson, philip levine, anne sexton, edward dorn
adrienne rich, jonathan williams, gregory corso, joel oppenheimer, gary snyder, george starbuck, patricia low, sylvia plath, david ray, robert sward, wendell berry, leroi jones, jean valentine
john wieners, paul zimmer, clayton eshleman, ronald johnson, robert kelly, jim harrison, diane wakoski, lou libsitz, david lawson, joel sloman