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Informationen zum Autor J. D. McCLATCHY is the author of seven previous collections of poetry and of three collections of prose. He has also edited numerous books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry , and has written a number of opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and elsewhere. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where he served as president from 2009 to 2012. McClatchy teaches at Yale University and is editor of The Yale Review. Klappentext Dazzling in its range! exhilarating in its immediacy and grace! this collection 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 include: Sylvia Plath James Merrill Amy clampitt Jorie Graham W. S. Merwin Charles Simic Allen Ginsberg Frank O'Hara Anne Sexton Robert Creeley Sharon Olds Mary Oliver Robert Pinsky Mark Strand Denise Levertov Richard Wilbur May Swenson Michael Palmer Mark Doty Yusef Komunyakaa TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A NOTE ON THE SECOND EDITION, 2003 ROBERT LOWELL The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Memories of West Street and Lepke Man and Wife Skunk Hour The Mouth of the Hudson For the Union Dead Waking Early Sunday Morning History The Nihilist as Hero Reading Myself Obit Fishnet Dolphin Epilogue ELIZABETH BISHOP The Bight Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance At the Fishhouses The Shampoo Brazil, January 1, 1502 Under the Window: Ouro Prêto The Armadillo Filling Station In the Waiting Room One Art Poem THEODORE ROETHKE Cuttings Root Cellar The Shape of the Fire The Waking I Knew a Woman In a Dark Time JOHN BERRYMAN The Moon and the Night and the Men from The Dream Songs (1, 4, 5, 14, 29, 46, 76, 77, 143, 257, 384) RANDALL JARRELL 90 North Eighth Air Force The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner The Woman at the Washington Zoo Cinderella Next Day Well Water ROBERT PENN WARREN Masts at Dawn Birth of Love Rattlesnake Country Evening Hawk CHARLES OLSON The Kingfishers J. V. CUNNINGHAM For My Contemporaries To My Wife from ACentury of Epigrams (29, 53, 55, 62, 76) ROBERT HAYDEN Night, Death, Mississippi Frederick Douglass Middle Passage JEAN GARRIGUE Amsterdam Letter Cracked Looking Glass After Reading The Country of the Pointed Firs MAY SWENSON Teleology Unconscious Came a Beauty Stone Gullets Staying at Ed’s Place Strawberrying ROBERT DUNCAN APoem Beginning with a Line by Pindar Styx WILLIAM MEREDITH The Illiterate Thoughts on One’s Head Consequences Country Stars
