'The work of a man who is both a poet and a distinguished critic, who has been observing and participating for years in the development of American poetry, and who is attached to no region or clique but only to what is good. In teaching poetry-writing workshops at Swarthmore and Columbia, and more recently in teaching at City College, I have been longing for such a collection. The scope and variousness are unmatched by any anthology of modern poetry I have ever seen. The individual choices are revealing of the richness and fertility of American verse in this epoch, but also of the editiorial care and devotion which has refused to plagiarize other anthologies, and which has given serious attention to the range of each work in making selections'. -Adrienne Rich- 'This anthology is original, sensitive, and beautiful balanced. It will certainly by a touchstone for future anthologies of this kind'. -Karl Shaphiro-