Joel Conarroe (Editor)
Eight American Poets: An Anthology.
Random House, 1994. First printing. 0679427791  xxiv/306 pages.
Volume is bound in quarter black cloth and white paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering to spine and embossed black lettering to gold spine compartment. Book and dust jacket are as new.
"This inviting collection of exceptionally brilliant poetry published between 1940 and the present brings together such figures as Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and John Berryman, as well as two important contemporary writers, Allen Ginsberg and James Merrill. As in his earlier "Six American Poets" (from Walt Whitman in the last century to Robert Frost and Langston Hughes in our own), the first poetry collection in more than fifty years to be featured as a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Joel Conarroe offers generous selections from a small group of powerful artists...His introductory biographical essays trace the personal and artistic links among thse poets, discuss the centrality of "confessional" writing, and raise questios about some disturbing patterns -- depression, alcoholism, and suicide -- that characterizes this particular generation of troubled geniuses."