The New Anthology of American Poetry

STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Word, and coeditor of Robert Lowell: New Essays on the Poetry. CAMILLE ROMAN is a visiting scholar at Brown University and professor emerita at Washington State University, Pullman. She is the author of Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View and coeditor of The Women & Language Debate: A Sourcebook and a music book series. THOMAS TRAVISANO is a professor of English at Hartwick College. He is the author of Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. He is the principal editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

*DOES NOT INCLUDE POEM TITLES*

Preface
Acknowledgements

PART ONE: FRIET-GENERATION MODERNISMS
   Introduction
NATIVE-AMERICAN SONGS AAND POETRY
NATIVE-AMERICAN GHOST DANCE SONGS
SONGS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, AND WORK I
JINSHAN GE/SONGS OF GOLD MOUNTAIN
HAWAIIAN PLANTATION WORK SONGS
JAPANESE IMMIGRANY POETRY
WILLA CATHER (1873-1947)
ALEXANDER POSEY (1873-1947)
LOLA RIDGE (1873-1941)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
AMY LOWELL (1874-1925)
GERTRUDE STEIN (1874-1946)
TRUMBULL STICKNEY (1874-1904)
ALICE DUNBAR-NELSON (1875-1935)
YONE NOGUCHI (1875-1947)
AMEEN RIHANI (1876-1940)
LUIS LLORENS TORRES (1876-1944)
ADELAIDE CRAPSEY (1878-1914)
CARL SANDBURG (1878-1967)
VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)
WALLACE STEVENS (1879-1955)
ANGELINA WELD GRIMKÉ (1880-1959)
GEORGINA DOUGLAS JOHNSON (ca. 1880-1966)
H. T. TSIANG [HSI-TSENG-CHIANG](1880-1971)
WITTER BYNNER (1881-1968)
JESSIE REDMON FAUSET (1862-1961)
MINA LOY (1882-1966)
ANNE SPENCER (1882-1975)
KAHLIL GIBRAN [JUBRAN KHALIL JUBRAN] (1883-1931)
JAMIL B. HOLWAY (1883-1946)
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963)
SARAH TEASDALE (1884-1933)
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
ELINOR WYLIE (1885-1928)
H. D. [HILDA DOOLITTLE] (1886-1961)
HAZEL HALL (1886-1924)
ROBINSON JEFFERS (1887-1962)
MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1972)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
JUN FUJITA (1888-1974)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
CONRAD AIKEN (1889-1973)
CLAUDE MCKAY (1889-1948)
MIKHAIL NAIMY (1889-1988)
ELIA ABU MADI [MADEY] (1890-1957)
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (1892-1982)
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
SALOMÓN DE LA SELVA (1893-1959)
E. E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
CHARLES REZNIKOFF (1894-1976)
GENEVIEVE TAGGARD (1894-1948)
JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967)
DADA
SONGS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATIO, AND WORK II
CORRIDOS
ANGEL ISLAND POETRY
PARLOR SONGS AND BALLADS
WORLD WAR I-ERA SONGS

PART TWO: SECOND-GENERATION MODERNISMS
   Introduction
BLUES
JAZZ AND MUSICAL THEATER LYRICS
GOSPEL MUSIC
EVARISTO RIBERA CHEVREMONT (1896-1974)
LOUISE BOGAN (1897-1970)
MELVIN B. TOLSON (1898-1966)
HART CRANE (1899-1932)
WEN I-TO [WEN JIAHUA] (1899-1946)
ALLEN TATE (1899-1979)
YVOR WINTERS (1900-1968)
STERLING BROWN (1901-1989)
LAURA RIDING (1901-1991)
GWENDOLYN BENNETT (1902-1981)
ARNA BONTEMPS (1902-1973)
KENNETH FEARING (1902-1971)
LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967)
OGDEN NASH (1902-1971)
COUNTEE CULLEN (1903-1946)
LORINE NIEDECKER (1903-1970)
CARL RAKOSI (1903-2004)
RICHARD EBERHART (1904-PRESENT)
LOUIS (LITTLE COON) OLIVER (1904-1991)
LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978)
CARMEN CELIA BELTRÁN (1905-2002)
STANLEY KUNITZ (1905-PRESENT)
KENNETH REXROTH (1905-1982)
ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989)
WORLD WAR II INTERNMENT CAMP POETRY

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