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Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry

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Edited by Mark Willhardt, with Alan Michael Parker; foreword by Andrew Motion. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Contains over 900 entries, "canonical and lesser-known, contemporary poets."

People in this reference:215
Those presently living:53
Those deceased:162
  
White:179
Black:17
Hispanic:12
Multiracial:3
Asian/Indian:1
American Aborigine:1
Asian:1
Middle Eastern:1
  
United States:113
England:25
France:9
Ireland:7
Germany:6
Spain:6
Canada:6
Russia:5
Italy:5
Scotland:4
Wales:3
Nicaragua:3
Northern Ireland:2
Poland:2
Guyana:1
South Africa:1
Argentina:1
Nigeria:1
Portugal:1
St. Lucia:1
(others):13
      Dannie Abse
      Anna Akhmatova
      Kingsley Amis
      A. R. Ammons
      Maya Angelou
      Guillaume Apollinaire
      Louis Aragon
      Antonin Artaud
      John Ashbery
      Margaret Atwood
      W. H. Auden
      Kofi Awoonor
      Amiri Baraka
      George Barker
      Samuel Beckett
            ·
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(185 names omitted for brevity)
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      Tristan Tzara
      Paul Valéry
      Mona Van Duyn
      Derek Walcott
      Robert Penn Warren
      Richard Wilbur
      C. K. Williams
      William Carlos Williams
      Yvor Winters
      James Wright
      Judith Wright
      Elinor Wylie
      William Butler Yeats
      Yevgeny Yevtushenko
      Louis Zukofsky



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