Contemporary American Poetry: Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Donald Hall

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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."

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Donald Hall is the author of many children's favorites, including The Ox-Cart Man (a Caldecott Medal winner), I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat and Lucy's Summer, and the editor of The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America (OUP, 1985). He has also written a dozen books of poetry, most recently
Without. He lives on a farm in New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Preface to the Second Edition Index of Poets Index of Titles Index of First Lines William Stafford (b. 1914) comes from Kansas and was educated at the universities of Kansas, Wisconsin and Iowa. He has taught in California and Indiana and is now at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. West of Your City appeared in 1960, and Travelling Through the Dark (winner of the National Book Award) in 1962. In 1966 he published The Rescued Year and in 1970 Allegiances . Travelling through the Dark Returned to Say At Cove on the Crooked River Strokes Near With My Crowbar Key Dudley Randall (b. 1914) is a librarian in Detroit, and publisher of the Broadside Press, which prints broadsides and books by black American poets. Randall published some of his poems, together with poems by Margaret Danner, in Poem Counterpoem (1966), and a second collection, Cities Burning , in 1968. Roses and Revolutions Black Poet, White Critic George Old Witherington David Ignatow (b. 1914) has lived most of his life in Manhattan. In 1961 he published Say Pardon , and in 1964 Figures of the Human , which collected poems from volumes that had gone out of print. Rescue the Dead , from which all of these poems are taken, was published in 1968. In 1970 he published Poems 1934-1969 .The Bagel Rescue the Dead Ritual Three East Bronx All Quiet Robert Lowell (1917-77) was a member of the Bostonian family that included a president of Harvard and the poets Amy and James Russell. He attended Harvard and Kenyon and studied with John Crowe Ransom. Lord Weary''s Castle (1946), Lowell''s first full-scale book, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947. The Mills of the Kavanaghs followed in 1951, and Life Studies (which won the National Book Award) in 1959. A book of translations, Imitations , appeared in 1961, and a translation of Racine''s Phedre in 1961. He published a new collection of poems, For the Union Dead , in 1964, and a collection of his plays, The Old Glory , in 1965. His most recent collections of poems are Near the Ocean (1967), Notebooks (1969), a revised Notebook 1970, For Lizzie and Harris (1973), History (1973), and The Dolphin (1973). Christmas Eve Under Hooker''s Statue The Holy Innocents New Year''s Day Katherine''s Dream After the Surprising Conversions Memories of West Street and Lepke For Sale Man and Wife Skunk Hour Robert Duncan (b. 1919) comes from Oakland, California, and has continued to live near by. He has edited the Experimental Review and Phoenix , and taught at Black Mountain College and the University of Buffalo. Among his books are The Opening of the Field (1960), Roots and Branches (1964), and Bending the Bow (1968). A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar Reed Whittemore (b. 1919) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended Yale University. He taught at Carleton College, was consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress in 1964-65, and is now on the staff of the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. He has published six volumes of poetry, of which the most recent is Poems New and Selected (1967). Still Life A Day with the Foreign Legion On the Suicide of a Friend The Party The Walk Home Howard Nemerov (b. 1920) joined the Royal Canadian Air Force after graduating from Harvard, and flew in England during the Second World War. He has published considerable literary criticism, three novels, a book of short stories and an autobiographical Journal of the Fictive Life , as well as several books of poems. New and Selected Poems appeared in 1960 and was followed by The Next Room of the Dream (1962) and The Blue Swallows (1967). Storm Windows The Statues in the Public Gardens A Singular Metamorphosis The View from an Attic Window The Fall Again Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) was educated at Amherst College and Harvard, where he took an M.A. in 1947, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows 1947-50. He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley and Wesleyan University, and he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and received a Prix de Rome. His books of poems include The Beautiful Changes (1947), Ceremony (1950), Things of This World (1956), Poems 1943-1956 (1957) and Advice to a Prophet (1961). In 1957 he received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Things of This World . He is also an accomplished translator, especially known for his translation of plays by Moli

Details ISBN0140586180 Author Donald Hall Pages 288 Publisher Penguin Books Series Penguin Poets Language English Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0140586180 ISBN-13 9780140586183 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.540 Year 1989 Publication Date 1989-01-31 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1928 Short Title CONTEMP AMER POETRY REV/E 2/E Edition Description Revised Residence Danbury, NH, US Subtitle Revised And Expanded DOI 10.1604/9780140586183 Edited by Hall, Donald Audience General/Trade We've got this

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