Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Second Edition is an essential collection of poetry which allows readers an unparalleled survey of the movements, schools and distinctive voices of modern and contemporary American poetry. It combines two existing Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections, Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Twentieth-Century African American Poetry, with over 500 volumes of newly-licensed material from established and emergent poets.

Highlights of material added in this release include:

• The major works of the modernist period such as the brittle imagist lyrics of Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, the playful and abstract masterpieces of Wallace Stevens and e.e. cummings and the symbolist cityscapes of Hart Crane.
• The works of key African-American writers of the twentieth century such as James Weldon Johnson and Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson, the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps and Sterling Brown) and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s (Imamu Amiri Baraka, Etheridge Knight, Audre Lorde and Sonia Sanchez).
• Essential works of Postmodern American poetry including representatives of Beat poetry (Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac), the Black Mountain School (Robert Creeley, Charles Olson), the New York School (John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett), Deep Image poetry (Robert Bly, Jerome Rothenberg) and Concrete poetry (Ronald Johnson).
• Greater representation of influential movements such as Objectivism (George Oppen and Carl Rakosi) and Language poetry (Charles Bernstein, Clark Coolidge, Bruce Andrews and Rae Armantrout).
• Significant works by Chicano poets including the leading members of the Nuyorican poetry movement Miguel Pinero, Sandra Maria Esteves and Gloria Vando as well as the poetry of other important Hispanic-American writers such as Sarah Cortez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Tato Laviera.
• Newly-licensed material from established and emergent poets such as Susan Howe, Denise Levertov, Michael Palmer, W.S. Merwin, Rosmarie Waldrop and Carl Rakosi.

When complete this essential collection will include over 1,400 volumes (100,000 poems) covering the full range of modern American poetry from 1900 to the present day.