This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the richness and diversity of American poetry from 1945 to the present.

Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.

This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.

Contemporary American poetry can often seem intimidating and daunting in its variety and complexity. This engaging and accessible book provides the first compre

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools,