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Sep 01, 1983 | ISBN 9780553262636 Buy
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Sep 01, 1983 | ISBN 9780553262636
“What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden CarruthThis famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each.“Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.”—Robert Lowell
Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) lived for many years in northern Vermont, then moved to upstate New York, where he taught at Syracuse University. He won the National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey, and his Collected Shorter Poems received the National Book Critics Circle… More about Hayden Carruth
"Not only the best on its period, I think, but it is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals."–Robert Lowell"What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively."–Hayden Carruth
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