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Modern American poets : their voices and visions / [collected by] Robert DiYanni.

1st ed.

New York : Random House, ©1987.

xxi, 730 pages ; 21 cm

Includes selections from the thirteen poets featured in the "Voices and Bisions" series as well as 37 other contemporary poets. Biocritical headnotes precede the poetry selections, with more detail provided for the 13 major poets.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

DiYanni, Robert.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Introduction -- Reading Poetry -- The experience of reading poetry -- The process of reading poetry -- The practice of active reading -- Centering on subject and theme -- Aspects of poetry -- Voices -- Words -- Images -- Comparisons -- Symbols -- Sentences -- Sounds -- Rhythms -- Structures -- Revisions -- Part Two: Major voices and visions -- Walt Whitman -- Emily Dickinson -- Robert Frost -- Wallace Stevens -- William Carlos Williams -- Ezra Pound -- Marianne Moore -- T.S. Eliot -- Hart Crane -- Langston Hughes -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Robert Lowell -- Sylvia Plath -- Part three: Other voices and visions: modern and contemporary poets -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- HD (Hilda Doolittle) -- John Crowe Ransom -- E.E. Cummings -- Louise Bogan -- Richard Eberhart -- Robert Penn Warren -- W.H. Auden -- Theodore Roethke -- Charles Olson -- Robert Hayden -- John Berryman -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- May Swenson -- Richard Wilbur -- Louis Simpson -- Kenneth Koch -- A.R. Ammons -- Robert Creeley -- Allen Ginsberg -- Frank O'Hara -- John Asbery -- Galway Kinnell -- W.S. Merwin -- James Wright -- Anne Sexton -- Donald Hall -- John Hollander -- X.J. Kennedy -- Adrienne Rich -- Gary Snyder -- Etheridge Knight -- Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Mark Strand -- Michael Harper -- Louise Glück -- James Tate.

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