| Description |
xxvii, 484 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
On the Road -- A Warm Summer -- The Place Where we Were Naked -- City Life -- 2X2X2 -- A Comforting Immensity -- A Sort of Rapture -- On the Avenue -- Snow -- Residential -- Good Work -- Out West -- Show Business -- Ocean Brine -- Never Expected to be There. |
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Poets include: Virginia Hamilton Adair -- Rick Agran -- Debra Allbery -- Ellen Bass -- Jeffrey Bean -- June Beisch -- Wendell Berry -- George Bilgere -- Michael Blumenthal -- Robert Bly -- Laure-Anne Bousselaar -- Jon Bowerman -- Marcia F. Brown -- Philip Bryant -- David Budbill -- Charles Bukowski -- Reid Bush -- Julie Cadwallader-Staub -- Gabrielle Calvocoressi -- Raymond Carver -- Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues) -- Michael Chitwood -- Amy M. Clark -- Billy Collins -- Nancy Couto -- Barbara Crooker -- Edward Denham -- Kate DiCamillo -- Emily Dickenson -- Kirsten Dierking -- Gregory Djanikian -- Susan Donnelly -- Stephen Dunn -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Snowstorm) -- Patricia Fargnoli -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Edward Field -- James Finnegan -- Chris Forhan -- Sarah Freligh -- David Lee Garrison -- Dobby Gibson -- Allen Ginsberg (A strange new college in Berkeley) -- Dana Gioia -- Natalie Goldberg -- Charles Goodrich -- Alvin Greenberg -- Linda Gregg -- John Haag -- John Haines -- Donald Hall -- Barbara Hamby -- Patricia Hampl -- W. C. Handy (Beale Street Blues) -- Phebe Hanson -- C. G. Hanzlicek -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Jim Harrison -- Robert Hass -- Linda M. Hasselstrom -- Tom Hennen -- Nancy Henry -- Edward Hirsch -- John Hollander -- Bill Holm -- Garrett Hongo -- Marie Howe -- David Huddle -- Robinson Jeffers -- Louis Jenkins -- Gary Johnson -- Rodney Jones -- Jessica Joyce -- |
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Julia Kasdorf -- Meg Kearney -- Jane Kenyon -- Galway Kinnell -- August Kleinzahler -- William Kloefkorn -- Ron Koertge -- Ted Kooser -- Maxine Kumin -- Donald Justice -- Charlie Langdon -- Gary L. Lark -- Dorianne Laux -- Emma Lazarus (Long Island Sound) -- Eleanor Lerman -- Philip Levine -- Brad Leithauser -- Gerald Locklin -- Jeanne Lohmann -- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow -- Phillip Lopate -- Freya Manfred -- Dan Masterson -- Sebastian Matthews -- William Matthews -- Linda McCarriston -- Dawn McDuffie -- Wesley McNair -- W. S. Merwin -- Corey Mesler -- Carolyn Miller -- Mark J. Mitchell -- Robert Morgan -- Malena Mörling -- Howard Moss -- Howard Nemerov -- William Notter -- Naomi Shihab Nye -- Debra Nystrom -- Sharon Olds -- Sheila Packa -- Grace Paley -- Greg Pape -- Linda Pastan -- Alice N. Persons -- Marge Piercy -- Katha Pollitt -- Barbara Ras -- James Reiss -- Kenneth Rexroth -- Theodore Roethke -- John Santayana -- May Sarton -- Ellie Schoenfeld -- Philip Schultz -- Anne Sexton -- Harvey Shapiro -- Faith Shearin -- Julie Sheehan -- Deborah Slicer -- W. D. Snodgrass -- Gary Snyder -- William Stafford -- Ellen Steinbaum -- Terry Stevenson -- Joseph Stroud -- Joyce Sutphen -- May Swenson -- James Tate -- Sara Teasdale -- James Tracy -- David Tucker -- John Updike -- Mona Van Duyn -- David Wagoner -- Ronald Wallace -- Julene Tripp Weaver -- Fred Weil Jr. -- Walt Whitman -- Reed Whittemore -- Anne Pierson Wiese -- C. K. Williams -- William Carlos Williams -- Christopher Wiseman -- Vincent Wixon -- Constance Fenimore Woolson -- Baron Wormser -- Charles Wright -- James Wright -- Kevin Young. |
| Summary |
An anthology of poetic works celebrates the American landscape with diverse selections by such contributors as Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, and Naomi Shihab Nye. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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United States -- Poetry.
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U.S. states -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Keillor, Garrison.
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| Added Title |
American places |
| ISBN |
9780670022540 hardback |
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0670022543 hardback |
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