Available separately for the first time Volume 2 Contemporary Poetry is the only comprehensive annotated anthology of contemporary poetry in English. Beginning ... » 

Available separately for the first time Volume 2 Contemporary Poetry is the only comprehensive annotated anthology of contemporary poetry in English. Beginning with Bishop and Olson it includes generous carefully reconsidered selections by the major postwar poets schools and movements. Thirtyseven new poets give full voice to ethnic American and postcolonial poetries and to postmodern and experimental traditions. The long poem and poetic sequence represented here by complete texts of Haydens Middle Passage Ginsbergs Howl Ashberys SelfPortrait in a Convex Mirror Richs TwentyOne Love Poems Walcotts The Schooner Flight and Harrisons v. receive due attention. The volume concludes with a new Poetics section of influential statements by poets that provide essential context for reading the poems. Apparatus headnotes annotations and bibliographies has been thoroughly revised and updated. A substantially new introduction outlines cogently the varied and interconnected movements of poetry from World War II to the present. «