{"product_id":"contemporary-american-poetry-isbn-9780140586183","title":"Contemporary American Poetry","description":"Within the pages of this anthology, now in its second edition, you’ll find 39 American poets from across the twentieth century. In his introduction, editor and Guggenheim fellow Donald Hall, describes the face of American poetry as \"subjective.\" The American poem “reveals through images not particular pain, but general subjective life . . . The poet uses fantasy and distortion to express feeling.”Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Poets\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Titles\u003cbr\u003eIndex of First Lines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Stafford\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1914) comes from Kansas and was educated at the universities of Kansas, Wisconsin and Iowa.  He has taught in California and Indiana and is now at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon.  \u003ci\u003eWest of Your City\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1960, and \u003ci\u003eTravelling Through the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Award) in 1962.  In 1966 he published \u003ci\u003eThe Rescued Year\u003c\/i\u003e and in 1970 \u003ci\u003eAllegiances\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eTravelling through the Dark\u003cbr\u003eReturned to Say\u003cbr\u003eAt Cove on the Crooked River\u003cbr\u003eStrokes\u003cbr\u003eNear\u003cbr\u003eWith My Crowbar Key\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDudley Randall\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1914) is a librarian in Detroit, and publisher of the Broadside Press, which prints broadsides and books by black American poets.  Randall published some of his poems, together with poems by Margaret Danner, in \u003ci\u003ePoem Counterpoem\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), and a second collection, \u003ci\u003eCities Burning\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1968.\u003cbr\u003eRoses and Revolutions\u003cbr\u003eBlack Poet, White Critic\u003cbr\u003eGeorge\u003cbr\u003eOld Witherington\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Ignatow\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1914) has lived most of his life in Manhattan.  In 1961 he published \u003ci\u003eSay Pardon\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 1964 \u003ci\u003eFigures of the Human\u003c\/i\u003e, which collected poems from volumes that had gone out of print.  \u003ci\u003eRescue the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, from which all of these poems are taken, was published in 1968.  In 1970 he published \u003ci\u003ePoems 1934-1969\u003c\/i\u003e.The Bagel\u003cbr\u003eRescue the Dead\u003cbr\u003eRitual Three\u003cbr\u003eEast Bronx\u003cbr\u003eAll Quiet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-77) was a member of the Bostonian family that included a president of Harvard and the poets Amy and James Russell.  He attended Harvard and Kenyon and studied with John Crowe Ransom.  \u003ci\u003eLord Weary's Castle\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), Lowell's first full-scale book, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947.  \u003ci\u003eThe Mills of the Kavanaghs\u003c\/i\u003e followed in 1951, and \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (which won the National Book Award) in 1959.  A book of translations, \u003ci\u003eImitations\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1961, and a translation of Racine's \u003ci\u003ePhedre\u003c\/i\u003e in 1961.  He published a new collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eFor the Union Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1964, and a collection of his plays, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Glory\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1965.  His most recent collections of poems are \u003ci\u003eNear the Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), \u003ci\u003eNotebooks\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), a revised \u003ci\u003eNotebook\u003c\/i\u003e 1970, \u003ci\u003eFor Lizzie and Harris\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e (1973), and \u003ci\u003eThe Dolphin\u003c\/i\u003e (1973).\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Eve Under Hooker's Statue\u003cbr\u003eThe Holy Innocents\u003cbr\u003eNew Year's Day\u003cbr\u003eKatherine's Dream\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Surprising Conversions\u003cbr\u003eMemories of West Street and Lepke\u003cbr\u003eFor Sale\u003cbr\u003eMan and Wife\u003cbr\u003eSkunk Hour\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Duncan\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1919) comes from Oakland, California, and has continued to live near by.  He has edited the \u003ci\u003eExperimental Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e, and taught at Black Mountain College and the University of Buffalo.  Among his books are \u003ci\u003eThe Opening of the Field\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eRoots and Branches\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), and \u003ci\u003eBending the Bow\u003c\/i\u003e (1968).\u003cbr\u003eA Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReed Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1919) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended Yale University.  He taught at Carleton College, was consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress in 1964-65, and is now on the staff of the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C.  He has published six volumes of poetry, of which the most recent is \u003ci\u003ePoems New and Selected\u003c\/i\u003e (1967).\u003cbr\u003eStill Life\u003cbr\u003eA Day with the Foreign Legion\u003cbr\u003eOn the Suicide of a Friend\u003cbr\u003eThe Party\u003cbr\u003eThe Walk Home\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward Nemerov\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1920) joined the Royal Canadian Air Force after graduating from Harvard, and flew in England during the Second World War.  He has published considerable literary criticism, three novels, a book of short stories and an autobiographical \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Fictive Life\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several books of poems.  \u003ci\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1960 and was followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Next Room of the Dream\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) and \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Swallows\u003c\/i\u003e (1967).\u003cbr\u003eStorm Windows\u003cbr\u003eThe Statues in the Public Gardens\u003cbr\u003eA Singular Metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003eThe View from an Attic Window\u003cbr\u003eThe Fall Again\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Wilbur\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1921) was educated at Amherst College and Harvard, where he took an M.A. in 1947, and was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows 1947-50.  He has taught at Harvard, Wellesley and Wesleyan University, and he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and received a Prix de Rome.  His books of poems include \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Changes\u003c\/i\u003e (1947), \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e (1950), \u003ci\u003eThings of This World\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), \u003ci\u003ePoems 1943-1956\u003c\/i\u003e (1957) and \u003ci\u003eAdvice to a Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e (1961).  In 1957 he received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eThings of This World\u003c\/i\u003e.  He is also an accomplished translator, especially known for his translation of plays by Molière, \u003ci\u003eThe Misanthrope\u003c\/i\u003e (1955) and \u003ci\u003eTartuffe\u003c\/i\u003e (1963).  In 1969 he published a new collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eWalking to Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eTywater\u003cbr\u003e\"A World Without Objects is a Sensible Emptiness\"\u003cbr\u003eMuseum Piece\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Last Bulletins\u003cbr\u003eShe\u003cbr\u003eThe Undead\u003cbr\u003eIn the Smoking Car\u003cbr\u003eShame\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1922) is a native of New York City and attended Kenyon College, where he studied with John Crowe Ransom.  He has taught at Smith College, Bard, and the University of Rochester.  He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and Hudson Review Fellow.  \u003ci\u003eA Summoning of Stones\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1954, and \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Hours\u003c\/i\u003e (which included a selection from the earlier book) was published in 1967 and received the Pulitzer Prize.\u003cbr\u003eAlceste in the Wilderness\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Sewall\u003cbr\u003eThe Vow\u003cbr\u003eThe End of the Weekend\u003cbr\u003e\"More Light! More Light!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Dickey\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1923) was born in Georgia and has lived most of his life in the South.  He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress, and teaches at the Unviersity of South Carolina.  In 1967 he gathered his verse together in \u003ci\u003ePoems 1957-67\u003c\/i\u003e.  In 1968 he collected his criticism under the title \u003ci\u003eFrom Babel to Byzantium\u003c\/i\u003e.  His most recent collection of poems is \u003ci\u003eEyebeaters, Blood, Victory, Madness, Buck-head and Mercy\u003c\/i\u003e (1970).\u003cbr\u003eThe Performance\u003cbr\u003eHunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenise Levertov\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1923) comes from Ilford in Essex, England and served as a nurse during the Second World War, when her poems were first published by Wrey Gardiner in London.  She married the American writer, Mitchell Goodman, and has lived in the United States since 1948.  He American books include \u003ci\u003eHere and Now\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), \u003ci\u003eOverland to the Islands\u003c\/i\u003e (1958), \u003ci\u003eWith Eyes at the Back of Our Heads\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eThe Jacob's Ladder\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), \u003ci\u003eO Taste and See!\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrow Dance\u003c\/i\u003e (1967) and \u003ci\u003eRelearning the Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e (1970).\u003cbr\u003eOVerland to the Islands\u003cbr\u003eSunday Afternoon\u003cbr\u003eThe Springtime\u003cbr\u003eThe Grace-note\u003cbr\u003eThe World Outside\u003cbr\u003eSix Variations\u003cbr\u003eA Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Logan\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1923) is editor of \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches at the University of Buffalo.  His books of poems are \u003ci\u003eCycle for Mother Cabrini\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), \u003ci\u003eGhosts of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eSpring of the Thief\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), and \u003ci\u003eZigzag Walk: Poems 1963-1968\u003c\/i\u003e (1969).\u003cbr\u003eThe Picnic\u003cbr\u003eA Trip to Four or Five Towns\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1923), born in Jamaica in the West Indies, came to the United States in 1940, and attended Columbia University.  He spent three years in the United States Army, mostly in the glider infantry, and received his citizenship at Berchtesgaden.  He has been a publisher, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and at Stony Brook in Long Island.  He has published a novel, a critical book and six books of poems.  \u003ci\u003eAt the End of the Open Road\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1966 and \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of the Letter I\u003c\/i\u003e in 1971.\u003cbr\u003eEarly in the Morning\u003cbr\u003eThe Ash and the Oak\u003cbr\u003eTo the Western World\u003cbr\u003eThe Riders Held Back\u003cbr\u003eWalt Whitman at Bear Mountain\u003cbr\u003eThere Is\u003cbr\u003eMy Father in the Night Commanding No\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdgar Bowers\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1924) was born in Georgia, and attended the University of North Carolina and Stanford, where he studied with Yvor Winters.  He has been a Sewanee Review Fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow.  He now teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  His books of poems are \u003ci\u003eThe Form of Loss\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) and \u003ci\u003eThe Astronomers\u003c\/i\u003e (1965).\u003cbr\u003eThe Mountain Cemetery\u003cbr\u003eThe Prince\u003cbr\u003eThe Centaur Overheard\u003cbr\u003eAdam's Song to Heaven\u003cbr\u003eLe Rêve\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Haines\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1924) was born in Virginia, and in the late forties studied painting and sculpture in Washington and New York.  He went to Alaska in 1947, and lived in a cabin which he built himself some seventy miles from Fairbanks.  He published \u003ci\u003eWinter News\u003c\/i\u003e in 1966 and \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Harp\u003c\/i\u003e in 1971.\u003cbr\u003eAnd When the Green Man Comes\u003cbr\u003eThe Tundra\u003cbr\u003eForeboding\u003cbr\u003eIf the Owl Calls Again\u003cbr\u003eTo Turn Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Justice\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1925) was born in Miami, Florida, where he attended the University of Miami.  He has studied at Stanford University and at the University of North Carolina.  He teaches at the State University of Iowa.  \u003ci\u003eThe Summer Anniversaries\u003c\/i\u003e was the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1959, and was followed by \u003ci\u003eNight Light\u003c\/i\u003e in 1967.\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the Hunting Woods\u003cbr\u003eOn the Death of Friends in Childhood\u003cbr\u003eHere in Katmandu\u003cbr\u003eAnother Song\u003cbr\u003eCounting the Mad\u003cbr\u003eOn a Painting by Patient B of the Independence State Hospital for the Insane\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Bly\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1926) was born on the Western plains of Minnesota and attended St. Olaf's College and Harvard University.  He is editor of the literary magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Seventies\u003c\/i\u003e, and spent a year in Norway on a Fulbright, translating Scandinavian poetry and prose.  Later he returned to Norway and to England on a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Ford Foundation Grant.  His poems have been collected in \u003ci\u003eSilence in the Snowy Fields\u003c\/i\u003e (1962) and in \u003ci\u003eThe Light Around the Body\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award in 1968.\u003cbr\u003eWhere We Must Look for Help\u003cbr\u003eSunday in Glastonbury\u003cbr\u003eAwakening\u003cbr\u003ePoem Against the British\u003cbr\u003eDriving toward the Lac Qui Parle River\u003cbr\u003eHunting Peasants in a Cornfield\u003cbr\u003eA Busy Man Speaks\u003cbr\u003ePoem in Three Parts\u003cbr\u003eThe Possibility of New Poetry\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once\u003cbr\u003eSleet Storm on the Merritt Parkway\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Jackson's Speech\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Creeley\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1926) was raised in Massachusetts, attended Harvard, and served in India and Burma with the American Field Service during the war.  Later he lived in France, Spain, and Guatemala, where he edited and taught school.  He has taught at Black Mountain College, at the University of New Mexico and now at San Francisco State.  He has published a novel and a book of short stories, as well as several volumes of poetry.  His poems are available in three volumes, \u003ci\u003eFor Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eWords\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), and \u003ci\u003ePieces\u003c\/i\u003e (1969).\u003cbr\u003eAfter Lorca\u003cbr\u003eI Know a Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Hill\u003cbr\u003eThe Signboard\u003cbr\u003eThe Cracks\u003cbr\u003eFor Love\u003cbr\u003eKore\u003cbr\u003eThe Rain\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Merrill\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1926) is a graduate of Amherst College and lives in Stonington, Connecticut.  He has published two novels and several books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eNights and Days\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award in 1967.  \u003ci\u003ePoems 1948-1961\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in England in 1962.  \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Screen\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1969.\u003cbr\u003eThe Power Station\u003cbr\u003eAngel\u003cbr\u003eChildlessness\u003cbr\u003eAfter Greece\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. D. Snodgrass\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1926) grew up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, where he majored in music at Geneva College.  After service in the Navy he attended the State University of Iowa, and taught at Cornell, Rochester and Wayne State University in Detroit.  He is now teaching at Syracuse University.  His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eHeart's Needle\u003c\/i\u003e (1959), received a Pulitzer Prize in 1960.  In 1968 he published \u003ci\u003eAfter Experience\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e Heart's Needle\u003cbr\u003eThe Examination\u003cbr\u003eMonet: \"Les Nymphéas\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. R. Ammons\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1926) was born in Whiteville, North Carolina.  After many years in business, Ammons took a position teaching at Cornell University.  He has published six books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), \u003ci\u003eUplands\u003c\/i\u003e (1970) and \u003ci\u003eBriefings\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003cbr\u003eHymn\u003cbr\u003eTerrain\u003cbr\u003eProspecting\u003cbr\u003eLoss\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllen Ginsberg\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1926) was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of a school teacher and poet.  He attended Columbia College, and with the publication of \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e in 1957 he became a spiritual leader of the young in America.  \u003ci\u003eKaddish\u003c\/i\u003e (1961) was his next collection, followed by \u003ci\u003eReality Sandwiches\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) and \u003ci\u003ePlanet News\u003c\/i\u003e in 1968.\u003cbr\u003eA Supermarket in California\u003cbr\u003eDream Record: June 8 1955\u003cbr\u003eTo Lindsay\u003cbr\u003eMessage\u003cbr\u003eThe End\u003cbr\u003eFirst Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Woods\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1926) was born in Martinsville, Indiana, and teaches at Western Michigan University.  He is the author of books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cutting Edge\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), \u003ci\u003eKeeping Out of Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e (1968) and \u003ci\u003eTurning to Look Back: Poems 1955-1970\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003cbr\u003eLie Closed, My Lately Loved\u003cbr\u003eWhat Do You Do When It's Spring?\u003cbr\u003eLooking Both Ways Before Crossing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank O'Hara\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-66) grew up in New England and attended Harvard and the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award.  Most of his adult life he spent in New York, one of the group of poets associated with contemporary painters.  He worked for \u003ci\u003eArt News\u003c\/i\u003e and the Museum of Modern Art, where he was an assistant curator of exhibitions at the time of his accidental death.  The Museum published a posthumous collection of his poems illustrated by painters who were his friends, \u003ci\u003eIn Memory of My Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e.  In 1971, Knopf published \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eWhy I am not a Painter\u003cbr\u003eA Step Away from Them\u003cbr\u003eSteps\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Ashbery\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1927), a native of Sodus, New York, was educated at Deerfield and Harvard.  He has worked for \u003ci\u003eArt News\u003c\/i\u003e and been art critic for the Paris edition of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e.  He has published four principal collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eSome Trees\u003c\/i\u003e (Yale Series of Young Poets, 1956), \u003ci\u003eThe Tennis Court Oath\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eRivers and Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e (1966) and \u003ci\u003eThe Double Dream of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (1970).\u003cbr\u003eSome Trees\u003cbr\u003eThe Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers\u003cbr\u003eA Vase of Flowers\u003cbr\u003eThoughts of a Young Girl\u003cbr\u003eOur Youth\u003cbr\u003eThe Young Prince and the Young Princess\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGalway Kinnell\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1927) was born in Rhode Island and attended Princeton University.  He has lived in France, where he taught at Grenoble, and in Iran.  He has translated Yves Bonnefoy and Villon, among other French poets.  He lives in an old farmhouse in Vermont, from which he occasionally departs to teach for a semester or two.  He has published \u003ci\u003eWhat a Kingdom It Was\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eFlower Herding on Mount Monadnock\u003c\/i\u003e (1964), \u003ci\u003eBody Rags\u003c\/i\u003e (1968) and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom\u003c\/i\u003e The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World\u003cbr\u003eFlower-hearding Pictures on Mount Monadnock\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. S. Merwin\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1927) was born in New York City, raised in Pennsylvania, and educated at Princeton University.  He has spent most of the last two decades in Spain, England and France, where he has a small cottage.  He has published numerous translations from Spanish and French.  His seven books of poems include \u003ci\u003eThe Drunk in the Furnace\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eThe Moving Target\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eThe Lice\u003c\/i\u003e (1967), and \u003ci\u003eThe Carrier of Ladders\u003c\/i\u003e (1970).\u003cbr\u003eLeviathan\u003cbr\u003eLow Fields and Light\u003cbr\u003eThe Bones\u003cbr\u003eSmall Woman on Swallow Street\u003cbr\u003eGrandfather in the Old Men's Home\u003cbr\u003eViews from the High Camp\u003cbr\u003eDeparture's Girl-friend\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1927) is a native of Ohio, and studied under John Crowe Ransom and Theodore Roethke.  He has been a Kenyon Review Fellow, and has lived in Austria on a Fulbright Award.  He taught at the University of Minnesota and now teaches at Hunter College in New York.  His books of poems are \u003ci\u003eThe Green Wall\u003c\/i\u003e (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 1957), \u003ci\u003eSaint Judas\u003c\/i\u003e (1959), \u003ci\u003eThe Branch Will Not Break\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eShall We Gather at the River\u003c\/i\u003e (1968).  His \u003ci\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1971.\u003cbr\u003eA Gesture by a Lady with an Assumed Name\u003cbr\u003eAt Thomas Hardy's Birthplace, 1953\u003cbr\u003eSaint Judas\u003cbr\u003eConfession to J. Edgar Hoover\u003cbr\u003eLying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota\u003cbr\u003eDepressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me\u003cbr\u003eThe Blessing\u003cbr\u003eMiners\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Sexton\u003c\/b\u003e (1928-74) began writing poems in 1957.  \u003ci\u003eTo Bedlam and Part Way Back\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1960, followed by \u003ci\u003eAll My Pretty Ones\u003c\/i\u003e (1962), \u003ci\u003eLive or Die\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967, \u003ci\u003eTransformations\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), \u003ci\u003eBook of Folly\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe Death Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e (1974).\u003cbr\u003eLament\u003cbr\u003eWanting to Die\u003cbr\u003eThat Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Hall\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1928) is editor of this anthology.  He was born in Connecticut, and since 1957 has lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  He spent two years at Oxford on a Henry Fellowship, and has returned to spend two more years in England subsequently.  His books of poems include \u003ci\u003eExiles and Marriages\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Houses\u003c\/i\u003e (1958), \u003ci\u003eA Roof of Tiger Lilies\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eThe Alligator Bride\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) and \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Room love poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003cbr\u003eThe Long River\u003cbr\u003eThe Blue Wing\u003cbr\u003eThe Alligator Bride\u003cbr\u003eGold\u003cbr\u003eReclining Figure\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX. J. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1929) is a native of New Jersey and took his B. A. at Seton Hall University, going to the University of Michigan for graduate study.  His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eNude Descending a Staircase\u003c\/i\u003e, was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1961.  He teaches at Tufts University.  In 1969 he published a second book of poems, \u003ci\u003eGrowing into Love\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eFirst Confession\u003cbr\u003eNude Descending a Staircase\u003cbr\u003eLittle Elegy\u003cbr\u003eB Negative\u003cbr\u003eIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrienne Rich\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1929), a native of Baltimore, published her first book of poems when she was a senior at Radcliffe College.  She lives in Manhattan.  She has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has held an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship.  Her most recent books are \u003ci\u003eSnapshots of a Daughter-in-Law\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eNecessities of Life\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), \u003ci\u003eLeaflets\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), and \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Change\u003c\/i\u003e (1971).\u003cbr\u003eThe Insusceptibles\u003cbr\u003eReadings of History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Dorn\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1929) was born in Illinois, and attended Black Mountain College.  He lived for some time in the northwest of the United States, especially in Pocatello, Idaho.  Recently, he spent several years as a visiting professor at the University of Essex, in England.  Some of his books of poems are \u003ci\u003eThe Newly Fallen\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), \u003ci\u003eGeography\u003c\/i\u003e (1965), \u003ci\u003eThe North Atlantic Turbine\u003c\/i\u003e (1967) and \u003ci\u003eGunslinger\u003c\/i\u003e (Book I, 1968; Book II, 1969).\u003cbr\u003eHome on the Range, February 1962\u003cbr\u003eOn the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck\u003cbr\u003eA Song\u003cbr\u003eMourning Letter, March 29, 1963\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1930) has lived most of the past decade in Japan, but has now settled in northern California in a house--Kitkitdizze--which he built himself.  His principal books are \u003ci\u003eRiprap\u003c\/i\u003e (1959), \u003ci\u003eMyths and Texts\u003c\/i\u003e (1960), \u003ci\u003eThe Back Country\u003c\/i\u003e (1968) and \u003ci\u003eRegarding Wave\u003c\/i\u003e (1970).\u003cbr\u003eAll through the Rains\u003cbr\u003ePiute Creek\u003cbr\u003eAbove Pate Valley\u003cbr\u003eMilton by Firelight\u003cbr\u003eHay for the Horses\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSylvia Plath\u003c\/b\u003e (1932-1963) was born in Boston and went to Smith College.  On a Fulbright to Cambridge she met Ted Hughes, the English poet, whom she married in 1956.  She published her first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eThe Colossus\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1960.  Shortly after the birth of her second child in 1962, she wrote the poems of her posthumous volume, \u003ci\u003eAriel\u003c\/i\u003e (1965).\u003cbr\u003eLady Lazarus\u003cbr\u003eDeath \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003eWords\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEtheridge Knight\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1933) was born in Corinth, Mississippi.  He has written of himself, \"I died in Korea from a shrapnel wound and narcotics resurrected me.  I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.\"  His book of poems is called \u003ci\u003ePoems from Prison\u003c\/i\u003e, and appeared in 1968.  He was released from the Indiana State Prison in December 1968.\u003cbr\u003eHard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane\u003cbr\u003eHe Sees Through Stone\u003cbr\u003eThe Idea of Ancestry\u003cbr\u003eAs You Leave Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Benedikt\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1937) lives in New York.  \u003ci\u003eThe Body\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1968, \u003ci\u003eSky\u003c\/i\u003e in 1970 and \u003ci\u003eMole Notes\u003c\/i\u003e in 1971.  He has also published considerable translation.\u003cbr\u003eThe European Shoe\u003cbr\u003eThe Eye\u003cbr\u003eDivine Love\u003cbr\u003eSome Feelings\u003cbr\u003eThoughts\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Clark\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1941) grew up in Chicago and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963, where he won a Major Hopwood Award for poetry.  He then attended Cambridge University and the University of Essex, returning to the United States in 1967.  He now lives in California.  His first major collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eStones\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1969 and \u003ci\u003eAir\u003c\/i\u003e in 1970.\u003cbr\u003ePoem\u003cbr\u003eGoing to School in France or America\u003cbr\u003eDoors\u003cbr\u003eEyeglasses\u003cbr\u003ePoem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Padgett\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1942) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and edited a magazine while he was still in high school which included work by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and LeRoi Jones.  With several other artists from Tulsa, he moved to New York, and currently lives in the East Village.  His book of collaborations with Ted Berrigan, \u003ci\u003eBean Spasms\u003c\/i\u003e, appared in 1967.  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