American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry

This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem—the hybrid—a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus in American Hybrid is on the blend; the more ...