American Poets Since World War Ii

Acclaimed poet and World War II veteran Shapiro's pathbreaking gathering of work by more than 60 poets of the war years includes Randall Jarrell, Anthony Hecht, George Oppen, Richard Eberhart, William Bronk, and Woody Guthrie.

Annotation DLB 120 continues a collection of biographical sketches on influential 20th-century American poets (though some included here are short of influence as well as of tooth). The volume discusses the lives and works of 66 poets born between the late 1920s and the mid-1950s, among the best and most "influential" of whom are Diane Ackerman, Ai, Alfred Corn, Rita Dove, Tess Gallagher, Reginald Gibbons, Jorie Graham, Marilyn Hacker, Garrett Hongo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sharon Olds, Alicia Ostriker, and Marge Piercy. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.