The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry

From Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, from Adrienne Rich, Audre Lord, and Rita Dove to Sharon Olds, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Henri Cole, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and re-shaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender, and intimate depth and breadth.