Doing Gender Diversity: Readings in Theory and Real-World Experience

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contains more than 750 poems by 161 American poets, including many who have not been anthologized before. Spanning a period from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie, this collection is the first to review the twentieth century comprehensively. It presents not only the canonical poetry of the last hundred years but also numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades.
Uniquely comprehensive,
represents Robert Frost with 23 poems, Wallace Stevens with 22, and Marianne Moore with 14, including her most ambitious long poems. William Carlos Williams is represented not only by his exquisite short lyrics, but also with an experimental combination of poetry and prose. With 29 poems, Langston Hughes is given full treatment for the first time in any comprehensive anthology. Substantial selections by contemporary poets like John Ashbery, Sylvia Plath, Frank O’Hara, Philip Levine, Lucille Clifton, Judy Grahn, Adrian Louis, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mart赤n Espada, and Sherman Alexie are also included.
is the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poem sequences. T.S. Eliot’s
Gertrude Stein’s “Patriarchal Poetry,” William Carlos Williams’s
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree,” Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Book of the Dead,” Melvin Tolson’s
Theodore Roethke’s “North American Sequence,” Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Gay Chaps at the Bar,” Kenneth Rexroth’s “The Love Poems of Marichiko,”
Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and his “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” and
Adrienne Rich’s “Shooting Script” and her “Twenty-One Love Poems” are all included in their entirety.
offers the most detailed annotations available in an anthology of this type. Many works benefit from specially commissioned research that provides students with such help as the identification of the inventive references in Melvin Tolson’s poetry, translation of all foreign language passages, and illumination of obscure references. This is also the only American poetry anthology to present selected poems in the beautifully illustrated form in which they first appeared. In addition, an accompanying website featuring readings of poems and historical background is available at
Ideal for courses in modern American poetry, modern American literature, modern or contemporary poetry, creative writing-poetry, and American studies,
introduces students to the last 100 years of our poetic heritage in a uniquely rich and provocative format.