num_pages: 656
description: Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert PinskyMark StrandDenise LevertovRichard WilburMay SwensonMichael PalmerMark DotyYusef Komunyakaa
language: English
title: The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
titlecomplete: The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
genres: Classics, College, Anthologies, Fiction, Read For School, School, 20th Century, Literature, Poetry, American Classics
ratings_count: 832
publisher: Vintage Books