Cambridge University Press Cambridge companion to american poets, hardback/***

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry.

This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.