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The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Edited by Sue Ellen Thompson
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ISBN (paperback): 1-932870-06-7 About the Book Over 300 poems by 94 of the best poets in America including:
Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Wendell Berry, Maxine Kumin, Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Denise Duhamel, Gerald Stern, Stephen Dunn, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Tony Hoagland, Charles Harper Webb, Jane Kenyon, Li-Young Lee, William Matthews, Linda Pastan, Campbell McGrath, Alicia Ostriker, Larry Levis, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Tim Seibles, Naomi Shihab Nye, B.H. Fairchild, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Jean Valentine, and Dean Young. The collection includes a photograph and a brief biographical sketch of each poet. About the Editor Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of This Body of Silk, which won the 1986 Samuel French Morse Prize, The Wedding Boat (Owl Creek Press), as well as The Leaving: New and Selected Poems and The Golden Hour, both published by Autumn House; she is also the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. She has been a Robert Frost Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Visiting Writer at Central Connecticut State University, and Poet-in-Residence at SUNY Binghamton and at the Frost place in Franconia, New Hampshire. Her poems have reached a large national audience through Garrison Keillor’s radio show Writer’s Almanac and Ted Kooser’s newspaper column American Life in Poetry. |
