This comprehensive anthology offers a broad and representative introduction to some of the most original new voices on the contemporary poetry landscape by gathering generous selections from the work of eighty-five younger American poets. These poets were born after 1960, did not publish a first book before 1995, and have no more than three books published. While these poets are extraordinarily diverse in their aesthetic sensibilities and approaches to craft, they are all distinguished by their inimitable voices, their virtuosity, their willingness to take meaningful risks in terms of form and content, an intellectual depth, an emotional honesty, and an ability to take the reader's breath away.