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The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry

10 best books like The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry (Jahan Ramazani): I Know Your Kind: Poems, Place: New Poems, Contemporary American Poetry, Collected Poems, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

I Know Your Kind: Poems
AuthorWilliam Brewer
ISBN1571314954
Selected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limon, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia.

In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems,...
Place: New Poems
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0062190644
In Place, Graham explores the ways in which our imagination, intuition, and experience--increasingly devalued by a culture that regards them as "mere" subjectivity--aid us in navigating a world moving blindly towards its own annihilation and a political reality where the human person and its dignity...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Merrill
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on...
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorJ.D. McClatchy
ISBN1400030935
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...
The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets
AuthorDominic Luxford
ISBN1932416811
The first McSweeney's foray into contemporary poetry brings together 100 poems by 50 poets in ten poet-chains, and making the publisher wonder why it waited so long to try this. How it works: Ten poets choose a poem of their own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the fifth generation....
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
AuthorTina Chang
ISBN0393332381
A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available.

Language for a New Century celebrates the artistic and cultural forces flourishing today in the East, bringing together an unprecedented selection...
Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0807063932
Part poetry anthology, part critical treatise, Leaping Poetry is a major statement by one of American's most distinguished poets. Bly's thesis is that great works of art contain leaps within themselves: 'A poet who is leaping makes a jump from an object soaked in unconscious substance to an object...
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present
AuthorDavid Lehman
ISBN0743243501
A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry...
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
AuthorKenneth Koch
ISBN0684824388
From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.

Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry for those...
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN0300088329
This book is chock full of great information about poetry. It talks about poetic devices, different forms and styles of poetry, and different sorts of feet, and all sorts of useful and relevant information. The problem is, this book is not organized at all, and the explanations are all given in the forms...
Collected Poems, 1951-1971
AuthorA.R. Ammons
ISBN0393321924
I haven't finished reading ALL the poems here, but am going to take a break for awhile (I've read almost one third, from various time periods in this collection). I forget how I stumbled upon this poet--I think he was quoted on an anarchist site that Lara sent me (believe it or not)--but he is one that I'll...
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe
AuthorMerry E. Wiesner-Hanks
ISBN0521778220
This is a major new edition of a stimulating and authoritative book. Merry Wiesner has updated and expanded her prize-winning study; she has added new sections on topics such as sexuality, masculinity, the impact of colonialism, and women's role as consumers. Other themes investigated include the...
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Package 2: Volumes C, D, and E
AuthorNina Baym
ISBN0393929949
This classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present features the work of over 260 writers, with 34 newly included. Among the 36 works reproduced in their entirety are Franklin's Autobiography; The Scarlet Letter; Walden; Adventures of Huckleberry...
Soul of the Samurai: Modern Translations of Three Classic Works of Zen Bushido
AuthorThomas Cleary
ISBN4805312912
Soul of the Samurai contains modern translations of three classic works of Zen & Bushido.

In Soul of the Samurai, bestselling author and respected translator Thomas Cleary reveals the true essence of the Bushido code or Zen warrior teachings according to 17th-century Japanese samurai...
Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind, and the Past
AuthorDaniel L. Schacter
ISBN0465075525
Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost mystical level, psychologists have struggled to demystify it. Now, according to Daniel Schacter, one of the most distinguished...
I Was the Jukebox: Poems
AuthorSandra Beasley
ISBN0393076512
“These poems are fresh, crisp, and muscular. They are decisive and fearless. Every object, icon, or historical moment has a soul with a voice. In these poems these soulful ones elbow their way to the surface of the page, smartly into the contemporary now.”—Joy Harjo, prize citation


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The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
AuthorIlya Kaminsky
ISBN0061583243
When your thoughts
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.

When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
My Love Is A Dead Arctic Explorer
AuthorPaige Ackerson-Kiely
ISBN1934103276
Poetry. Poems of a loneliness that quarrels with itself from the far edge of love, this is a collection of would-be love poems chastened by experience. "I was a Promethean dilettante disabused of tinder," says the speaker, who later observes, "After you reach adulthood / no one bets you'll set this world...
Selected Poems
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0811210669
Selected Poems, the first selection to encompass the rich diversity of Hilda Doolittle's poetry, is both confirmation and celebration of her long-overdue inclusion in the modernist canon. With both the general reader and the student in mind, editor Louis L. Martz of Yale University (who also edited...
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo
AuthorBrendan Simms
ISBN0465064825
In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe—Napoleon's forces...
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
AuthorGareth Reeves
ISBN0133207226
I picked this poem to read because of a speech I read given by Erica Jung to the ACLU. I actually chose part of the speech to present as a monologue in a voice class. granted I don't look like Jung but I liked the challenge. http://gos.sbc.edu/j/jong.html. I should add I was in DC at the time of the CDA working...
Poetry: A Pocket Anthology
AuthorR.S. Gwynn
I think it's a pretty good survey of English poetry. All the big names are in here, including Shelley, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Poe, Keats, Dickinson, Frost, Bishop, Plath, etc. This collection spans several centuries, from around 1450 (first poem listed) to 2000 (the last poem listed;...
Speaking of Siva
AuthorA.K. Ramanujan
ISBN0140442707
Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions...
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories, 1945-1985
AuthorDaniel Halpern
ISBN0140079491
The years since World War II have seen an exciting resurgence of the short story. From Albert Camus to William Maxwell, from Amos Oz to R.K. Narayan, from Ann Beattie to Yukio Mishima - this incomparably rich and diverse collection attests to the vigor and excellence of the modern short story throughout...
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