And What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the Century - Softcover

This book is an end-of-the-century celebration and a capstone to three previous anthologies, 60 on the 60s, 70 on the 70s, and 80 on the 80s; each of them a decade's history in verse. The editors chose this collection from submissions of about 12,000 poems. The book includes the work of Hayden Carruth, X.J. Kennedy, Carolyn Kizer, Rebecca McClanahan, Lewis Turco, Carolyne Wright, and many more. This book is a collection of poems was selected from over 12,000 submissions from across the United States to create a phantasmagoria of experiences in coping with a world of pain, joy, fear, and astonishment during the 1990s as well as developing new perspectives through cogitations of past decades and anticipations of the new millennium.This book is a collection of poems was selected from over 12,000 submissions from across the United States to create a phantasmagoria of experiences in coping with a world of pain, joy, fear, and astonishment during the 1990s as well as developing new perspectives through cogitations of past decades and anticipations of the new millennium.