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,...

A collection of poetic portraits of sixteen famous Americans from Paul Revere to Neil Armstrong, by such authors as Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy.

An anthology of poetic works celebrates the American landscape with diverse selections by such contributors as Nikki Giovanni, William Carlos Williams, and Naomi Shihab Nye.

A blues poem that revisits the history of the African American experience.

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

Uses rhyme to enumerate and describe natural objects seen while walking through the woods.

100 poems selected by Robert Pinsky that represent each volume in The best American poetry series.

This tenth and final edition of The Bar-D Roundup collects the most popular classic and contemporary poetry tracks from the past volumes, including those from early volumes that are long out of print..