The Harvill Book of 20th Century Poetry in English

by Michael Schmidt

Book Overview

Michael Schmidt's anthology includes the work of more than a hundred poets from every part of the English-speaking world. What links their diverse voices is a common language: each poem, in its own way, adds to the resources of the medium and makes it new.

The poems in this book are allowed to slip free of their moorings in the biography and history of the last century to create new spaces and times. They have been chosen because they are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860467350
• ISBN13: 9781860467356
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"