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![poet Sara Teasdale [1884-1933] in 1956](images/SAA-sarateasdale.jpg "poet Sara Teasdale [1884-1933] in 1956")
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"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."
— poet Charles Bukowski
back on Page 1: top of page Anthologies & Non-Fiction Library of America Early American Poets
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Early XXth Century Poets
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poet Elizabeth Bishop []
http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Poems-Elizabeth-Bishop/dp/0374518173/
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poet (Harold) Hart Crane [1899-1932]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Crane
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=250
"The Broken Tower" [Focus World Jan 2012] /tt1756791/
Co-written & directed by and starring James Franco
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poet Countee Cullen [1903-1946]
http://americanpoetsproject.loa.org/volume/1598530836
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poet-playwright E.E. Cummings [1894-1962]
browse books selected poetry
Wikipedia
Poets.org's E.E. Cummings pages
E.E. Cummings Society
http://www.amazon.com/E-Cummings-Complete-1904-1962-Corrected/dp/0871401525/
http://www.amazon.com/100-Selected-Poems-cummings/dp/0802130720/
"Enormous Smallness: A Story of e.e. cummings" [] by Matthew Burgess, illus. by Kris Di Giacomo
Enchanted Lion, $17.95 hardcover, 64p., ages 6-9, 9781592701711
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poet Percy Dovetonsils, as presented by Ernie Kovacs [1919-62]
 | "Percy Dovetonsils . . . Thpeaks" [2012]
Omnivore Recordings audio CD [6/2012] 22 tracks for $9.99 also available on new vinyl and MP3 albums |
poet T.S. Eliot [1888-1965]
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri, moved to England at age 25, and became a British citizen at age 39 (1927); he received the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, and died in London in 1965. He is treated by this bookstore as a British author: see Authors of Britain.
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
poet Robert Frost [1874-1963] Page
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Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose and Plays [1995] Edited by Richard Poirier & Mark Richardson Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [10/95] for $23.10 includes the collections "Complete Poems of Robert Frost" [1949] & "In the Clearing" [1962], and nearly two dozen early works |
poet Langston Hughes [1902-67]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Langston-Hughes-Vintage-Classics/dp/067972818X/
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Langston-Hughes-Vintage-Classics/dp/0679764089/
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regional poet Richard Hugo [1923-82]
http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Hugo/e/B001H6P0T2/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hugo
http://www.hugohouse.org/
 | "Death and The Good Life: A Murder Mystery" [1981] A retired Seattle homicide cop seeks a quieter life and takes a sheriff's deputy job in a small Montana town; but very soon he is dealing with the axe-murders of two local residents . . . Caxton Press 8½x5½ pb [9/91] for $12.56 Clark City Press 8¾x5¾ pb [9/91] out of print/40+ used St. Martin's Press 8¼x5¼ hardcover [1981] out of print/60+ used |
posthumous book of collected poetry "Making Certain It Goes On" []
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Certain-Goes-Collected-Richard/dp/0393307840/
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Californias 'premier bard'
Robinson Jeffers [1887-1962] Page
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poet Philip Levine
he won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1995 and was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate in 2011
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
poet & critic Vachel Lindsay [1879-1931] Page
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poet Edna St. Vincent Millay [1892-1950]
browse poetry browse biographies IMDb listing
Broadway credits
Wikipedia
Millay Colony For The Arts [est. 1973] in Austerlitz, NY
Edna St. Vincent Millay poetry pages at American Poems
http://americanpoetsproject.loa.org/volume/1931082359
 | "Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay" [2001] by Nancy Milford Random House 8x5 pb [9/2002] for $10.17 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2001] out of print/many used |
 | "Millay: Selected Poems" [2003] Edited by J. D. McClatchy American Poets Project/LOA 7¾x4¾ hardcover [1/2003] for $15.60 |
Francis Russell 'Frank' O'Hara [1926-66]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O%27Hara
http://www.amazon.com/Frank-OHara-Poetics-Contemporary-American/dp/0877459843/
http://www.amazon.com/Frank-OHara-Poet-Among-Painters/dp/0226660591/
"City Poet: The Life & Times of Frank O'Hara" [HarperCollins] by Brad Gooch
http://www.amazon.com/City-Poet-Times-Frank-OHara/dp/0062303414/
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'confessional' poet Sylvia Plath [1932-63]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath
Sylvia Plath reads her poem Lady Lazarus [BBC Radio 1962 audio 3:33] on YouTube
"Double Exposure" or "Double Take"
Plaths second novel was unfinished at the time of her death, and the manuscript was lost sometime around 1970.
"The Collected Poems" [1981] by Sylvia Plath
won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
"Sylvia" [2004] starring Gwyneth Paltrow & David Craig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPK5dnE9CS4
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expatriate poet Ezra Pound [1885-1972]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=201
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poet Carl Sandburg [1878-1967]
browse books IMDb listing
Broadway credits
Wikipedia
Carl Sandburg Historic Site Assn.
'Chicago Poems' [1916] etext
Carl Sandburg papers at University of IL/UC:
Connemara
Asheville
Poets.org's Carl Sandburg pages
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Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems [2006] Edited by Paul Berman American Poets Project/LOA 7½x4¾ hardcover [10/2006] for $15.60 |
Modernist poet Wallace Stevens [1879-1955]
received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955
browse books
Wikipedia
The Wallace Stevens Society []
"The Man With The Blue Guitar" [1937]
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Wallace-Stevens/dp/0679726691/
http://www.amazon.com/Wallace-Stevens-Collected-Library-America/dp/1883011450/ 1997
http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=3
"The Collected Poems: The Corrected Edition" [Vintage Intl 8/2015] by Wallace Stevens, Edited by Chris Beyers
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-Corrected-Vintage-International/dp/1101911689/
"The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens" [4/2016] by Paul Mariani
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Harmonium-Life-Wallace-Stevens/dp/1451624379/
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poet William Carlos Williams [1883-1963]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams
http://americanpoetsproject.loa.org/volume/1931082715
The Beats
'The Beat Generation' Page
at Maison d'Κtre Philosophy Bookstore
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Charles Bukowski [1920-94] Page
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Wm. S. Burroughs [1914-97] Page
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Gregory Corso [1930-2001] Page
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Diane DiPrima
browse books
Wikipedia
Diane DiPrima papers at University of Louisville, KY
official Diane DiPrima website
Blue Neon's Diane DiPrima pages
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
browse books IMDb listing
Wikipedia
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers [est. 1953] of San Francisco, CA
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Michael McClure
browse books IMDb listing
Wikipedia
official Michael McClure homepage
McClure-Manzarek site
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Kenneth Patchen [1911-72]
browse books Wikipedia
Poets.org's Kenneth Patchen page
official Kenneth Patchen website
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"Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet In America" [2000] by Larry Smith Bottom Dog Press 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2000] for $25.95 |
Gary Snyder
browse books IMDb listing
Wikipedia
Poets.org's Gary Snyder page
Gary Snyder page at LitKicks
Gary Snyder homepage
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Anne Waldman
books IMDb listing
Wikipedia
Naropa's Anne Waldman page
Poetspath's Anne Waldman page
Latter XXth Century Poets
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John Ashbery [1927-2017]
'The greatest American poet of the last fifty years' President Barack Obama presented a National Humanities Medal to him in 2012.
books
Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/John-Ashbery-Collected-1956-1987-Library/dp/1598530283/
http://www.amazon.com/John-Ashbery-Collected-1991-2000-Library/dp/1598535358/
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James Baldwin [1924-87]
books
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
 | "James Baldwin: Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems" [2014] Introduction by Nikky Finney includes all nineteen poems from "Jimmys Blues" and all six poems from the limited-edition "Gypsy", of which only 325 copies were ever printed Kindle Edition from Beacon Press [4/2014] for $9.99 Beacon Press 8½x5¾ pb [4/2014] for $11.85 |
Spirit of America Bookstore's
author & poet Ray Bradbury [1920-2012] Pages
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
poet & novelist Richard Brautigan [1935-84] Page
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poet James Dickey [1923-97]
browse books
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
James Dickey Society
JS's James Dickey fansite
Univ IL/UC James Dickey pages
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author & critic & poet Donald Hall [1928-2018]
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2006-2007; published more than 50 books, from poetry to drama to memoirs; his poetry won him a National Book Critics Circle
prize, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a National Medal of Arts.
browse books
Wikipedia
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author & poet Maxine Kumin [1925-2014]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Kumin
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American children's poet Jack Prelutsky [b. 1940]
browse books
official website {broken 2021}
official Facebook page {last update 6/2019}
Wikipedia
Poems by Jack Prelutsky at
The Poetry Foundation [est. 2003] in Chicago
Jack Prelutsky page at
Academy of American Poets [est. 1934]
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poet James Wright [1927-80]
browse books poems online
Wikipedia
won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
James Wright Poetry Festival [est. 1981] in Martins Ferry, Ohio
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poet Louis Zukofsky [1904-78]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zukofsky
"Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems" [] Edited by Charles Bernstein
http://americanpoetsproject.loa.org/volume/1931082952
XXth-XXIst Century Poets
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poet & artist G. Thomas Edwards of Gardnerville, Nevada
official website
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poet Louise Elisabeth Glόck lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993; won Bollingen Prize in Poetry (2001); U.S. Poet Laureate (20032004)
faculty info at Yale
Wikipedia
 | "Poems, 1962-2012" [2012] Farrar, Straus & Giroux pb [DUE Nov 2013] for $13.05 Farrar, Straus & Giroux 9¼x6½ hardcover [12/2012] for $26.40 |
author G.E. Nordell of New Mexico
online poetry
other writings
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poet Mary Oishi of Albuquerque, New Mexico
official blogsite {last update 2/2021}
search for books by Mary Oishi at Amazon
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poet Adrienne Rich [1929-2012]
browse books
Wikipedia
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Hispanic-American poet & children's author Gary Soto
"What Poets Are Like" book 2013
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