The New Anthology of American Poetry
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Release Date:01 Sep 2012
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The New Anthology of American Poetry

Beginnings to the Present

Rutgers University Press

Now available for the first time as a three-volume set, The New Anthology of American Poetry offers the most compelling and wide-ranging selection of poems from the nation’s beginnings to the present day. Extensive introductions, notes, and footnotes make the great poems of each period fully accessible.

Each volume invites readers into a diverse world of poetry and culture. Some of the poems are deeply personal, some explore the mystery of otherness, and some concentrate on the enigmas and beauty of poetry itself. The words are rich, contradictory, and challenging. The poets grapple with life and language, striving to say something about themselves and the world we share. Their works reflect the nation’s dizzying cultural changes and provide timeless insights.

STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Word, and coeditor of Robert Lowell: New Essays on the Poetry.

CAMILLE ROMAN is a visiting scholar at Brown University and professor emerita at Washington State University, Pullman. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View and coeditor of The Women & Language Debate: A Sourcebook and a music book series.

THOMAS TRAVISANO is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. He is the principal editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.
*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*

Preface
Acknowledgements

PART ONE: FRIET-GENERATION MODERNISMS
   Introduction
NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS AAND POETRY
NATIVE-AMERICAN GHOST DANCE SONGS
SONGS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, AND WORK I
JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN
HAWAIIAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS
JAPANESE IMMIGRANY POETRY
WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)
ALEXANDER POSEY (1873-1947)
LOLA RIDGE (1873-1941)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)
GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)
TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904)
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON (1875-1935)
YONE NOGUCHI (1875-1947)
AMEEN RIHANI (1876-1940)
LUIS LLORENS TORRES (1876-1944)
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878-1914)
CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ (1880-1959)
GEORGINA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (ca. 1880-1966)
H. T. TSIANG [HSI-TSENG-CHIANG](1880-1971)
WITTER BYNNER (1881-1968)
JESSIE REDMON FAUSET (1862-1961)
MINA LOY (1882-1966)
ANNE SPENCER (1882-1975)
KAHLIL GIBRAN [JUBRAN KHALIL JUBRAN] (1883-1931)
JAMIL B. HOLWAY (1883-1946)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
SARAH TEASDALE (1884-1933)
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
H. D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] (1886-1961)
HAZEL HALL (1886-1924)
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
JUN FUJITA (1888-1974)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
CONRAD AIKEN (1889-1973)
CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948)
MIKHAIL NAIMY (1889-1988)
ELIA ABU MADI [MADEY] (1890-1957)
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982)
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
SALOMÓN DE LA SELVA (1893-1959)
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894-1976)
GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948)
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)
DADA
SONGS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATIO, AND WORK II
CORRIDOS
ANGEL ISLAND POETRY
PARLOR SONGS AND BALLADS
WORLD WAR I-ERA SONGS

PART TWO: SECOND-GENERATION MODERNISMS
   Introduction
BLUES
JAZZ AND MUSICAL THEATER LYRICS
GOSPEL MUSIC
EVARISTO RIBERA CHEVREMONT (1896-1974)
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)
MELVIN B. TOLSON (1898-1966)
HART CRANE (1899-1932)
WEN I-TO [WEN JIAHUA] (1899-1946)
ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)
YVOR WINTERS (1900-1968)
STERLING BROWN (1901-1989)
LAURA RIDING (1901-1991)
GWENDOLYN BENNETT (1902-1981)
ARNA BONTEMPS (1902-1973)
KENNETH FEARING (1902-1971)
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
OGDEN NASH (1902-1971)
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970)
CARL RAKOSI (1903-2004)
RICHARD EBERHART (1904-PRESENT)
LOUIS (LITTLE COON) OLIVER (1904-1991)
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978)
CARMEN CELIA BELTRÁN (1905-2002)
STANLEY KUNITZ (1905-PRESENT)
KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982)
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)
WORLD WAR II INTERNMENT CAMP POETRY

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