From Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" to Langston Hughes' reply "I, too (am America)," this anthology is full of poems that describe, celebrate, and bring to vivid life the American experience.

This collection redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present. It features the work of more than 200 poets, almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. The book includes not only writers born since the previous edition, but also many fine poets overlooked in earlier editions or little known in the past but highly deserving of attention. Many more women and African-American poets are represented,...

"An inventive, acutely political, and deeply personal new collection by the celebrated author of 10:04 and The Topeka School"--Publisher's website. The Lights is a constellation of verse and prose, voice mails and vignettes, songs and felt silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relation. Sometimes the scale is intimate, quiet, and sometimes the poems are sweeping, Orphic experiments in the animation of our common world....

In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild.

Roman historians suggested the black swan never existed as a species found in the natural world. However, poets well know the icon of the black swan is alive and well and swimming across many sign posts of pubs in the British Isles. Read these poems and savor a lyrical exuberance that activates, quickens and celebrates a cosmic song

A collection of poems depicts life on Silly Street, where poodles dance, a flying squirrels perform in a circus, and a candy booth serves rainbow jaw busters.

Traces the evolution of English-language poetry from Beowulf to modern times. Historical background complements the seductive rhythms of the poems themselves, as performed by the greatest actors of our times. Features works by great English and American poets, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and many more.

Poems deal with themes ranging from resistance to violence and war to finding one's inner courage and strength as a woman.

"This is an anthology of poetry and short prose about the Sonoran Desert that is organized in the manner of a field guide"--Provided by publisher.