Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano continue the standard of excellence set in Volumes I and II of this extraordinary anthology. Volume III provides the most compelling and wide-ranging selection available of American poetry from 1950 to the present. Its contents are just as diverse and multifaceted as America itself and invite readers to explore the world of poetry in the larger historical context of American culture.

*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART ONE: MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY   IntroductionGEORGE OPPEN (1908-1984)THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963)CHARLES OLSON (1910-1970)ELIZABETH BISHOP (1911-1979)CARLOS BULOSAN (1911?-1956)MURIEL RUKEYSER (1913-1980)JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-1972)JULIA BE BURGOS (1914-1953)RANDALL JARRELL (1914-1965)GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917-2000)ROBERT LOWELL (1917-1977)ROBERT DUNCAN (1919-1988)JAMES DICKEY (1923-1997)DENISE LEVERTOV (1923-1997)MITSUYE YAMADA (b. 1923)ROBERT CREELY (1926-2005)ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997)JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927)ANNE SEXTON (1928-1974)JOSEPH AWAD (1929-2009)ADRIENNE RICH (b. 1929)GARY SNYDER (b. 1930)DEREK WALCOTT (b. 1930)SYLVIA PLATH (1932-1963)AMIRI BARAKA [LEROI JONES] (b. 1934)DIANE DI PRIMA (b. 1934)PART TWO: LATE-TWENTIETH CENTURY/EARLY-TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY POETRY   IntroductionSUSAN HOWE (b. 1937)LUIS OMAR SALINAS (1937-2008)MICHAEL S. HARPER (b. 1938)KATHLEEN SPIVACK (b. 1938)FRANK BIDART (b. 1939)ROBERT PINKSY (b. 1940)BOB DYLAN (b. 1941)LYN HEJINIAN (b. 1941)ALEX KUO (b. 1941)WANDA COLEMAN (b. 1946)RAE ARMANTROUT (b. 1947)LINDA HOGAN (b. 1947)YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA (b. 1947)NATHANIEL MACKEY (b. 1947)GERALD MCCARTHY (b. 1947)W. D. EHRHART (b. 1948)CAROL FROST (b. 1948)VICTOR HERNÁNDEZ CRUZ (b. 1949)CHARLES BERNSTEIN (b. 1950)CAROLYN FORCHÉ (b. 1950)MAURYA SIMON (b. 1950)JOHN YAU (b. 1950)RAY A. YOUNG BEAR (b. 1950)THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA (1951-1982)JOY HARJO (b. 1951)RITA DOVE (b. 1952)CHERRÍE MORAGA (b. 1952)NAOMI SHIHAB NYE (b. 1952)ALBERTO RÍOS (b. 1952)GARY SOTO (b. 1952)MARK DOTY (b. 1953)HARRYETTE MULLEN (b. 1953)GJERTRUD SCHNACKENBERG (b. 1953)ELMAZ ABINADER (b, 1954)LORNA DEE CERVANTES (b. 1954)MARILYN CHIN (b. 1955)CATHY SONG (b. 1955)AMY GERSTLER (b. 1956)LI-YOUNG LEE (b. 1957)JUAN DELGADO (b. 1960)BAO-LONG CHU (b. 1965)SHERMAN ALEXIE (b. 1966)QUEEN LATIFAH [DANA OWENS] (b. 1970)About the EditorsCopyrights and PermissionsIndex