| POETRY
 Blum, Joshua and others The United States of Poetry
(1996)
With text spilled among its 225
images of multicultural America (180 in color), The United States of Poetry,
edited by Joshua Blum, Bob Holman (co-director of Nuyorican Poets Café) and Mark
Pellington, distills the look and feel of the PBS series it accompanies. This
March celebration from Abrams juxtaposes poets such as Sandra Cisneros with
media phenom Lypsinka and rocker Michael Franti.
 Carlson, Lori M. Cool Salsa:
Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the U.S.
(1994)
An acclaimed collection of poems about life in America by
young Latinos--in a bilingual edition. Ciardi, John and
Miller Williams How Does a Poem Mean? (1975)
 Dickinson, Emily Poems (1993)
 Dunning, Stephen, et.al. Reflections on a Gift of
Watermelon Pickle...(1995)
From lighthearted Phyllis McGinley to pessimistic Ezra Pound;
from the lyricism of Edna St.Vincent Millay to the vigor of Lawrence
Ferlinghetti; from Carl Sandburg on loneliness to Paul Dehn on the bomb--such is
the range. The little known or unknown poet and the widely recognized appear
side by side.
Giddings, Robert The War Poets
(1988)
 Gillan, Maria Mazziotti and Jennifer Gillan,
editors Unsettling America (1994)
With extraordinary honesty,
dignity, and insight, an impressive array of poets displace the myths and
stereotypes that pervade our culture. The first multicultural poetry anthology
to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans.
 Gordon, Ruth, editor Pierced by a Ray of Sun: Poems about the Times
We Feel Alone (1995)
Pierced By a Ray of Sun offers a collection of poems about all
of us, for we all sometimes feel we are different and alone. Throughout time
poets everywhere have described these feelings and have recognized them as a
cost of being human and sensitive to ourselves.
 Heany, Seamus and Ted Hughes, editors The
Rattle Bag (1996)The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly
in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of
all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet
telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves
two of contemporary literature's leading poets.
 Miller, E. Ethelbert, editor In Search of Color
Everywhere (1994)A sense of pride and heritage speaks through every page of
this fresh compilation celebrating African American verse. Contributors include
Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Thulani Davis, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki
Giovanni, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Maya Angelou, and others.
 Neil, Philip, editor Singing America
(1995)From Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" to Langston Hughes' reply "I,
too (am America), " this rich anthology is full of poems that describe,
celebrate and bring to vivid life the American experience. Amidst the great
legacy of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are traditional spirituals and
anthems, and songs of the Pueblo and Sioux.
 Niatum, Duane editor Harper's Anthology of
20th C. Native American Poetry (1988)
 Nye, Naomi Shihab The Tree is Older Than You
Are (1995)
This gathering of poems and
stories, told in both the original Spanish and translated English, transcends
borders as it invites readers into a shared world of ideas, visions and dreams.
Sixty-four great Mexican writers and painters are collected here, including
Rosario Castellanos, Alberta Blanco, Octavio Paz, and Julio Galan.
 Oliver, Mary New and Selected Poems
(1992) Rosenberg, Liz, editor Earth-Shattering
Poems (1998)
A collection of poems that
capture intense experiences and emotions by such authors as Sappho, John Keats,
Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, and J. E. Wei.
 Rubin, Robert Alden, editor Poetry Out Loud
(1993) Smith, Philip, editor 100 Best-Loved
Poems (1995)
The Passionate Shepherd to His
Love, Death, be not proud, The Raven, The Road Not Taken, poems by Shakespeare,
Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, many more.
 Stallworthy, Jon, editor Book of Love Poetry (1987)
Jon Stallworthy has here
selected some of the most moving, funny, shameless, and erotic love poems in the
English language.
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