American Poetry: The Twentieth Century Vol. 1 (LOA #115): Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker - Library of America: The American Poetry Anthology

Marc Notes: Incl. bibl. ref. & index; Poetry anthology with capsule biographies. Publisher Marketing: This landmark anthology, part of a series that will eventually cover the entire century, gathers nearly 1500 poems by over 200 poets to restore American poetry's most brilliant era in all its beauty, explosive energy, and extraordinary diversity. Included are generous selections of the century's great poets -- Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes; and undervalued poets like Witter Bynner, Mina Loy, Louis Zukofsky, Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Robert Johnson; and a wealth of talented and overlooked poets, experimentalists, formal innovators, popular and humorous versifiers, poets of social protest, and accomplished songwriters. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/06/2000 pg. 106 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) - *Starred Review New York Times 04/02/2000 pg. 10 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1313 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Library Journal 04/01/2000 pg. 105 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2000 pg. 44 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Choice 11/01/2000 pg. 530 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2000 pg. 79 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 346 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Library Journal 03/15/2000 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 614 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 795 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 556 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 957 (EAN 9781883011772, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Various The Marvel and Other Short Stories is a collected anthology of six short stories written by the winners of the Austin Macauley World Book Day short story competition. Contributor Bio:  Hass, Robert Robert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco, 2010), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco, 2008), Sun Under Wood (Ecco, 1996), Human Wishes (1989), Praise (1979), and Field Guide (1973), which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer's Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Contributor Bio:  Hollander, John John Hollander is the author of eighteen previous books of poetry. His first, "A Crackling of Thorns," was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has written eight books of criticism and edited "The Laurel Ben Jonson; "an anthology of contemporary poetry, "Poems of Our Moment;" and, with Harold Bloom, "The Wind and the Rain," an anthology of verse for young people. He was a coeditor of "The Oxford Anthology of English Literature" and is the editor (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) of "Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls," Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana universities, was a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows of Harvard University, and in 1990 was made a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is currently Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale. Contributor Bio:  Kizer, Carolyn Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer has compiled this collection devoted to one hundred of the finest poems written by women. She begins with a woman writing anonymously in the fifteenth century and takes us up to the present with such important contemporary authors as Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Jorie Graham, and Thylias Moss. This extraordinary anthology also contains such major poets as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Gertrude Stein. And there is a generous selection of relatively unknown and wonderfully eccentric poets who wrote in obscurity during the past five hundred years. Contributor Bio:  Mackey, Nathaniel Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1942), is the author of books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, editor of the Literary Jounal Hambone, and radio show host. His collection, Splay Anthem, won the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry. He is also on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets, and is Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Contributor Bio:  Perloff, MarjorieMarjorie Perloff is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of numerous books, including "Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media" (1991), "Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary" (1996), and "Poetry On and Off the Page" (1998). She is considered to be one of the most distinguished critics now writing on twentieth-century poetry and poetics.