"The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry continues to be the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English. It richly represents the major figures, while also giving full voice to ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions, postcolonial poetry, and the long poem, eclipsing all other anthologies in scope, clarity, and balance." --Amazon.com.

Revised edition of: The Norton anthology of modern poetry. 2nd ed. New York : Norton, c1988. Vol. 2 of a 2-vol. set.

Charles Olson -- Elizabeth Bishop -- May Swenson -- Robert Hayden -- Karl Shapiro -- Delmore Schwartz -- Muriel Rukeyser -- William Stafford -- Randall Jarrell -- John Berryman -- Dylan Thomas -- Judith Wright -- P.K. Page -- Robert Lowell -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Robert Duncan -- William Meredith -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Louise Bennett -- Howard Nemerov -- Amy Clampitt -- Richard Wilbur -- Kingsley Amis -- Donald Davie -- Philip Larkin -- Anthony Hecht -- James Dickey -- Alan Dugan -- Louis Simpson o-- Denise Levertov -- Richard Hugo -- Kenneth Koch -- Maxine Kumin -- Donald Justice -- W.D. Snodgrass -- A.R. Ammons -- James Merrill -- Robert Creeley -- Allen Ginsberg -- David Wadoner -- Frank O'Hara -- Robert Bly -- Charles Tomlinson -- Galway Kinnell -- John Ashbery -- W.S. Merwin -- James Wright -- Philip Levine -- Thomas Kinsella -- Anne Sexton -- A.K. Ramanujan -- Richard Howard -- Adrienne Rich -- Thom Gunn -- John Hollander -- Derek Walcott -- Gary Snyder -- Kamau Brathwaite -- Christopher Okigbo -- Ted Hughes -- Okot p'Bitket -- Geoffrey Hill -- Sylvia Plath -- Audre Lorde -- Mark Strand -- Wole Soyinka -- Amiri Baraka -- Charles Wright -- Mary Oliver -- Marge Pierce -- Lucille Clifton -- June Jordan -- Tony Harrison -- Susan Howe -- Michael S. Harper -- Charles Simic -- Les Murray -- Seamus Heaney -- Frank Bidart -- Michael Longley -- Margaret Atwood -- Eunice de Souza -- Robert Pinsky -- Robert Hass -- Lyn Hejinian -- Derek Mahon -- Sharon Olds -- Marilyn Hacker -- Dave Smith -- Louise Gluck -- Michael Palmer -- Michael Ondaatje -- James Tate -- Eavan Boland -- Craig Raine -- Norman Dubie -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Lorna Goodison -- Ai -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- Agha Shahid Ali -- James Fenton -- Grace Nichols -- Charles Bernstein -- Carolyn Forche -- Jorie Graham -- Anne Carson -- Medbh McGuckian -- Joy Harjo -- Paul Muldoon -- Gary Soto -- Rita Dove -- Alberto Rios o-- Mark Doty -- Thylias Moss -- Louise Erdrich -- Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Marilyn Chin -- Cathy Song -- Carol Ann Duffy -- Dionisio D. Martinez -- Henry Cole -- Li-Young Lee -- Sherman Alexie.