Poetry of the American West

With more than 150 poems and forty striking photographs, Poetry of the American West chronicles the imagery of the region's long and diverse cultural heritage. Featuring verse by more than seventy poets and spanning a period of more than five hundred years, this is the first anthology to include the wide range of voices from a land where cultural collisions are part of the territory. Covering the traditional and the exploratory, the ancient and the modern, ranging in tone from anger to celebration, Poetry of the American West carves a new path through this fascinating landscape.