The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 2: Contemporary Poetry

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. Thirty-seven 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 Hayden’s “Middle Passage,” Ginsberg’s “Howl,” Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” Rich’s Twenty-One Love Poems, Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight,” and Harrison’s v., receive due attention.

The volume concludes with a new Poetics section of influential statements by poets that provide essential contexts 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.