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The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

10 best books like The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century (Hayden Carruth): The Bat-Poet, The Waste Land and Other Writings, The Top 500 Poems, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Best American Poetry 2009, Juggling for the Complete Klutz, The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, The Collected Poems, The Blue Estuaries

The Bat-Poet
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0062050842
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days—he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way.

With...
The Waste Land and Other Writings
AuthorT.S. Eliot
ISBN0375759344
Also includes Prufrock and Other Observations, Poems (1920), and The Sacred Wood
Introduction by Mary Karr
 
First published in 1922, “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the...
The Top 500 Poems
AuthorWilliam Harmon
The Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across centuries, beginning with Chaucer's resourceful inventions and moving through Shakespeare's masterpieces,...
Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
Immortal Poems of the English Language
AuthorOscar Williams
ISBN0671496107
Immortal Poems
Here is the most inclusive anthology of verse ever published at so low a price. It contains not only the best-known works of the British and American masters but also the verse of the most brillant poets of our own day. Oscar Williams, who compiled Immortal Poems, was a distinguished...
The Best American Poetry 2009
AuthorDavid Wagoner
ISBN1439166269
David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb...
Juggling for the Complete Klutz
AuthorJohn Cassidy
ISBN0932592007
I think that I would give this book two and a half stars.

One of the things about The Klutz Book of Juggling that stands out most saliently in my mind is the surprisingly spare technical Juggling advice in its pages. All of the other beginning Juggling manuals that I've read put a definite emphasis...
The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0385479174
Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."
In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, "The...
The Collected Poems
AuthorSara Teasdale
ISBN1568493452
I love Sara Teasdale's poetry in small doses. If you read too much of it at once, though, it gets to be decidedly too much on the same theme.

This is the poem that introduced me to her work. I knew it by heart from that very first reading, and secretly (or not secretly, now), rather feel this way myself,...
The Blue Estuaries
AuthorLouise Bogan
ISBN0374524610
I found one truly memorable poem in the collection, a sharp observation transformed by a peculiar sensibility, a formula advocated elsewhere in the book but rarely followed. Even in this instance, the poem would have been better served if the last line had been removed.

Roman Fountain

Up...
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude
AuthorJerome Rothenberg
ISBN0520072278
As we come to the end of the century, the entire vista of modern poetry has dramatically changed. Poems for the Millennium captures the essence of that change, and unlike any anthology available today, it reveals the revolutionary concepts at the very heart of twentieth-century poetry.
International...
The Best American Poetry 2007
AuthorHeather McHugh
ISBN0743299736
Yes, I know I'm a little bit behind in my reading...
Okay, so every year in Best American, without fail, one will find a good number of big names and at least a few poems from The New Yorker, Poetry, and other major publications. Some past guest eds leaned more in this direction than others, but there...
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN0689806302
Naomi Shihab Nye complied a book of poems from around the world and named it, This Same Sky. This work proves as a physical representation of the collective human consciousness, with nature being present through most of the rhythmic lines of each individual piece.
One could almost think each poem...
Ojo in Oz
AuthorRuth Plumly Thompson
ISBN0345337042
An avid reader of Baum's books and a lifelong children's writer, Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began her writing career in 1914 when she took a job with the Philadelphia Public Ledger; she wrote a weekly children's column for the newspaper. She had already published her first...
Even in Quiet Places
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN1881090167
This book brings together four privately printed chapbooks and offers them to the general public in one volume. All the poems are in William Stafford's familiar, reflective voice, and some had been freshly typed at the time of Stafford's death in August of 1993. The book is hospitable to a full range...
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0871563681
Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles a unique cross-cultural anthology that illuminates the idea of a larger-than-human consciousness operating in the universe. The book’s 150 poems come from around the world and many eras: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary...
Songs from the Gallows: Galgenlieder
AuthorChristian Morgenstern
ISBN0300052782
Antologie z rozsáhlého, dnes již klasického souboru groteskně laděných veršů německého básníka.
Morgenstern ve své nejslavnější sbírce potvrzuje pověst zakladatele německé nonsensové poezie. Jeho verše, většinou komponované v pravidelné rýmové poloze,...
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
AuthorPaul Hoover
ISBN0393310906
Postmodern American Poetry provides a deep and wide selection-411 poems by 103 poets-of the major poets and movements of the late twentieth century. Included are the leading Beat and New York School poets, the Projectivists, and "Deep Image" poets. Included, too, is the rich array of poetry written...
The Best American Poetry 2011
AuthorKevin Young
ISBN1439181497
I thought for a long time about whether I wanted to review this or if I had the capacity to do so. I feel like there are hordes of poetry fans and critical readers who are waiting in the wings to tell me I’m an idiot and that I don’t understand poetry. Anthologies are always hit and miss for people--it’s...
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0060907274
This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.

Contents:
I live my life --
I have many brothers --
We don't dare --
I love the dark hours --
You darkness, that I come from --
I have faith --
I am too alone --
You see,...
The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950; With Prose Translations
AuthorWilliam Rees
ISBN0140423850
Non obtrusive prose translations and a fantastic selection. If you need a starting point for modern French poetry this is the place to go. Not only do you have a good selection from all of the most known poets but also a gateway into lesser known but very good poetry. Without this volume I would never have...
ABC of Reading
AuthorEzra Pound
ISBN0811201511
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding “Treatise on Meter” provides an illuminating...
Poems 1913-1956
AuthorBertolt Brecht
ISBN0878300724
..".this impressive selection of Bertolt Brecht's poetry...roughly 500 poems...shows convincingly that his ouevre is one of the major poetic achievements of the present century. The editing, with excellent notes, excerpts from Brecht's own views about poetry and Mr. Willett's concise introduction...
Six American Poets: An Anthology
AuthorJoel Conarroe
ISBN0679745254
Here are the most enduring works of six great American poets, collected in a single authoritative volume. From the overflowing pantheism of Walt Whitman to the exquisite precision of Emily Dickinson; from the democratic clarity of William Carlos Williams to the cerebral luxuriance of Wallace Stevens;...
Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN1885983158
What I like about this book is its emphasis on reading poetry with the correct itonation. Then again, I read Hollander's Sound and Sense, so he really believes in sound being a big part of poetic form.

Anyway, this particular collection is divided into five categories (ranging from "Sonnets"...
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