The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.
From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.
Other poets include:
Sylvia Plath
James Merrill
Amy clampitt
Jorie Graham
W. S. Merwin
Charles Simic
Allen Ginsberg
Frank O'Hara
Anne Sexton
Robert Creeley
Sharon Olds
Mary Oliver
Robert Pinsky
Mark Strand
Denise Levertov
Richard Wilbur
May Swenson
Michael Palmer
Mark Doty
Yusef Komunyakaa
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April 8, 2003J. D. McClatchy (b. 1945) was the author of eight collections of poetry and three collections of prose. He edited numerous other books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, and wrote a number of opera libretti that have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and elsewhere. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where he served as president from 2009 to 2012. McClatchy taught at Yale University and long served as editor of The Yale Review. He died in April, 2018.
Plundered Hearts
J. D. McClatchy
The Changing Light at Sandover
James Merrill
Mercury Dressing
J. D. McClatchy
Selected Poems of Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht; Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Seven Mozart Librettos
J D Mcclatchy
Selected Poems of James Merrill
James Merrill
The Four Seasons
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Hazmat
J. D. McClatchy
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
J.D. McClatchy
Poems of the Sea
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Love Speaks Its Name
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
On Wings of Song
Edited by J. D. McClatchy
Christmas Poems
Edited by John Hollander and J. D. McClatchy