As the twenty-first century unfolds in a United States characterized by deep divisions, diminished democracy, and dramatic transformation of identities, the editors of this singular book approached a dozen North American poets, asking them ...

This volume explores the genre's recent history and development, as succeeding generations of poets have taken up the American idiom and molded it into their own unique modes of expression.

Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state’s history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry.

From the extraordinary diversity of contemporary poetry, Peter Stitt, the distinguished critic and editor of the Gettysburg Review, has chosen in this book to write about five poets only, all premier practitioners—John Ashbery, Stephen ...

In the book's closing piece, Steven Ratiner makes a return visit to Donald Hall's New Hampshire farm to conduct a moving interview shortly before the publication of Hall's collection Without, which focused on the death of his wife, poet ...

Spiegelman looks closely at a handful of contemporary poets including John Ashbery, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Charles Tomlinson and Charles Wright, to illustrate the art of description in poetry.

Including reviews of the poetry of Larkin, Tomlinson, Gunn, Hughes, Plath, Heaney and more. This work will appeal to A-level students, undergraduates, members of adult education classes and general readers enjoying modern literature.

Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the haiku to rap music--and trace their history

Pairing poem with prose, the book manages to define, exemplify, and explain the range of formal possibilities available to the contemporary poet, through its broad formal variety and intimate style of commentary.