Encyclopedia of American poetry [2] The twentieth century

This new encyclopedia is a companion to Haralson's well-received Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (LJ 10/1/98). Like its predecessor, this new volume focuses on individual poets, "landmark" poems (e.g., "Howl," "The Waste Land"), and topics such as the "Black Mountain School," "Imagism," and "Light Verse." The almost 200 contributors include professors, Ph.D. candidates, writers, and school teachers. The signed articles provide biographical information and critical discussion of the literary and historical significance of each poet, excellent bibliographies of both works and criticism, and suggestions for further reading in the topics entries. Both a general index and a title index are included. Though in its biographical and critical aspects this work overlaps heavily with the Dictionary of Literary Biography and American Writers, those multivolume sets do not provide encyclopedic coverage of topics and are more expensive than this single, though very large, volume. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Editor's Note Advisers and Contributors List of Entries Encyclopedia of American Poetry A Conrad Aiken Will Alexander Miguel Algarín Julia Alvarez A.R. Ammons Easter Morning Garbage Sphere: The Form of a Motion Bruce Andrews Maya Angelou Anthologies, Textbooks, and Canon Formation David Antin Rae Armantrout John Ashbery Clepsydra Flow Chart Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror The Tennis Court Oath Asian American Poetry W.H. Auden In Memory of W.B. Yeats In Praise of Limestone Musée des Beaux Arts September 1, 1939 B Imamu Amiri Baraka Black People: This Is Our Destiny A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand Beat Poetry Ben Belitt Stephen Vincent Benét Charles Bernstein Ted Berrigan Wendell Berry John Berryman The Dream Songs Homage to Mistress Bradstreet Frank Bidart Elizabeth Bishop The Armadillo Crusoe in England In the Waiting Room One Art Black Arts Movement Paul Blackburn Black Mountain School R.P. Blackmur Robin Blaser Robert Bly Counting Small-Boned Bodies Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River The Teeth Mother Naked at Last Louise Bogan Medusa Women Arna Bontemps Kamau Brathwaite Joseph Brodsky William Bronk The Force of Desire The World, the Worldless Gwendolyn Brooks A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi... A Street in Bronzeville Sterling A. Brown Ma Rainey Southern Road Charles Bukowski Witter Bynner C John Cage Canadian Poetry (Anglophone) Caribbean Poetry Hayden Carruth Chicago Renaissance John Ciardi Amy Clampitt Lucille Clifton Confessional Poetry Clark Coolidge Gregory Corso Jayne Cortez Hart Crane At Melville's Tomb The Bridge Voyages Adelaide Crapsey Robert Creeley Anger The Door For Love: Poems, 1950–1960 Countee Cullen Heritage E.E. Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town i sing of Olaf glad and big my father moved through dooms of love J.V. Cunningham D Dada Deep Image Poetry James Dickey Drowning with Others Falling Diane di Prima Edward Dorn Dorn: Gunslinger Rita Dove "Ö" Thomas and Beulah Robert Duncan Doves A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar E Richard Eberhart T.S. Eliot Ash-Wednesday Four Quartets Gerontion The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land Clayton Eshleman William Everson Expatriate Poetry Experimental Poetry/The AvantGarde F Lawrence Ferlinghetti Carolyn Forché Robert Francis Kathleen Fraser Free Verse Robert Frost Desert Places Design Horne Burial Mending Wall The Road Not Taken Fugitives and Agrarians G Gay and Lesbian Poetry Allen Ginsberg America Howl Kaddish Dana Gioia Nikki Giovanni Louise Glück Jorie Graham Angelina Weld Grimké Allen Grossman Barbara Guest Louise Imogen Guiney Thom Gunn H Marilyn Hacker Rachel Hadas Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Donald Hall Joy Harjo Harlem Renaissance Michael Harper Dear John, Dear Coltrane Nightmare Begins Responsibility Robert Hass Robert Hayden Elegies for Paradise Valley Middle Passage H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Helen in Egypt Trilogy Anthony Hecht Lyn Hejinian Victor Hernández Cruz Edward Hirsch Hispanic American Poetry Daniel Hoffman John Hollander Kinneret Bob Holman Fanny Howe Susan Howe Pythagorean Silence Langston Hughes Montage of a Dream Deferred The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Weary Blues Richard Hugo I David Ignatow Imagism J Randall Jarrell Thinking of the Lost World Robinson Jeffers Hurt Hawks Shine, Perishing Republic Georgia Douglas Johnson 6 James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones Ronald Johnson June Jordan Donald Justice Men at Forty K Bob Kaufman Weldon Kees Robinson Poems Robert Kelly X.J. Kennedy Jack Kerouac Mexico City Blues Joyce Kilmer Galway Kinnell The Fundamental Project of Technology Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight Carolyn Kizer August Kleinzahler Kenneth Koch Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It Maxine Kumin Stanley Kunitz L Language Poetry Gerrit Lansing Ann Lauterbach Li-Young Lee Denise Levertov Olga Poems A Woman Alone Philip Levine On the Murder of Lieutenant José Del Castillo ... Light Verse Vachel Lindsay Lindsay: The Congo Literary Theory and Poetry Little Magazines and Small Presses Long Poem Andre Lorde Coal Walking Our Boundaries Amy Lowell Patterns The Sisters Robert Lowell After the Surprising Conversions For the Union Dead Life Studies The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Mina Loy Love Songs to Joannes M Nathaniel Mackey Archibald MacLeish Jackson Mac Low Edgar Lee Masters William Matthews Bernadette Mayer Thomas McGrath Claude McKay America The Lynching The White City James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Lost in Translation W.S. Merwin The Chinese Mountain Fox The Drunk in the Furnace Robert Mezey Midwestern Poetry Renaissance Edna St. Vincent Millay Justice Denied in Massachusetts Renascence Czeslaw Milosz Ars Poetica? Campo dei Fiori Modernism Marianne Moore The Fish Marriage The Pangolin Poetry The SteepleJack Howard Moss Harryette Mullen N Vladimir Nabokov Narrative Poetry Ogden Nash Native American Poetry Howard Nemerov New Criticism New Formalism New York School Lorine Niedecker Lake Superior My Life by Water Alice Notley O Objectivism Frank O'Hara The Day Lady Died Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Charles Olson As the Dead Prey Upon Us The Kingfishers The Maximus Poems George Oppen Discrete Series Of Being Numerous Simon Ortiz Judith Ortiz Cofer P Ron Padgett Michael Palmer Sun Dorothy Parker Kenneth Patchen Bob Perelman Performance Poetry Marge Piercy Robert Pinsky The Figured Wheel Sylvia Plath Ariel Daddy Lady Lazarus Ezra Pound Cathay Homage to Sextus Propertius Hugh Selwyn Mauberley The Pisan Cantos Prizes Prosody and Versification R Carl Rakosi John Crowe Ransom Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter Here Lies a Lady Ishmael Reed Lizette Woodworth Reese Religion and Poetry Kenneth Rexroth On Flower Wreath Hill Charles Reznikoff Autobiography: New York/ Autobiography: Hollywood Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World Diving into the Wreck Snapshots of a DaughterinLaw A Valediction Forbidding Mourning Laura Riding Alberto Ríos Edwin Arlington Robinson Eros Turannos Miniver Cheevy Mr. Flood's Party Theodore Roethke Greenhouse Poems My Papa's Waltz North American Sequence Jrome Rothenberg Muriel Rukeyser The Book of the Dead S Mary Jo Salter Sonia Sanchez Carl Sandburg Chicago Poems San Francisco Renaissance Leslie Scalapino Gjertrud Schnackenberg James Schuyler Delmore Schwartz Armand Schwerner Anne Sexton All My Pretty Ones The Double Image Housewife Karl Shapiro Ron Silliman Charles Simic Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand Louis Simpson W.D. Snodgrass Gary Snyder Myths and Texts Riprap Gustaf Sobin Cathy Song Heaven Gary Soto Jack Spicer After Lorca William Stafford Timothy Steele Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons Gerald Stern Wallace Stevens The Idea of Order at Key West Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction Peter Quince at the Clavier The Snow Man Sunday Morning Mark Strand Surrealism May Swenson Symbolism T Genevieve Taggard John Taggart Allen Tate Ode to the Confederate Dead James Tate Sara Teasdale Melvin Tolson Harlem Gallery Jean Toomer U John Updike V Mona Van Duyn W Diane Wakoski Derek Walcott Another Life A Far Cry from Africa Omeros Anne Waldman Rosmarie Waldrop Margaret Walker War and Anti-War Poetry Robert Penn Warren Audubon: A Vision Philip Whalen John Wieners Richard Wilbur Love Calls Us to the Things of This World The Writer Willialll Carlos Williams Al Que Quiere! Asphodel, That Greeny Flower The Desert Music Paterson Spring and All Yvor Winters Charles Wright James Wright Elinor Wylie Z Louis Zukofsky "A" Title Index General Index Notes on Advisers and Contributors The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States. First published in 2001. 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