This book is a newly revised and expanded collection of poems from seventy-five of America's iconic poets of the past half-century, from Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Gluck, Sharon Olds and Mark Doty, from Sylvia Plath to Heather McHugh to Yusef Komunyakaa. It gathers together poetry from every region of the country and from the past fifty years.