D. H. Lawrence,Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United Kingdom in November; first published in the United States in October;[9]English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925)
Hugh MacDiarmid (pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, the name used for this book),Annals of the Five Senses[9]
Elsa Gidlow,On A Grey Thread, the first volume of openlylesbian love poetry published in North America
D. H. Lawrence,Birds, Beasts and Flowers, including "Snake", published in the United States in October, published in the United Kingdom in November,English poet and author living in the United States (1922–1925)
Wallace Stevens,Harmonium, including "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle", "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", "Sunday Morning", "Sea Surface Full of Clouds" and "In the Clear Season of Grapes".[12] Stevens' first book, it is published by Knopf when he is in middle age (44 years old). Its first edition sells only a hundred copies before being remaindered, suggesting thatMark Van Doren has it right when he writes inThe Nation this year that Stevens's wit "is tentative, perverse, and superfine; and it will never be popular"[13] yet by 1960 the cottage industry of Stevens studies will be becoming a "multinational conglomerate"[14] (Revised edition,1931)[12]
Jean Toomer,Cane, a blend of poetry, fiction and dramatic sketches[15]
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Bharati,Kuyil Pattu-Kannan Pattu-Parata Arupattaru, consists of three works, includingKuyil Pattu, written in1912, a long narrative poem of 741 lines, written in the traditional Kalivenpa meter, called "a landmark in the field of modernTamil poetry" by Sisir Kumar Das;Parati Arupattaru, 66-verse autobiographical work[7]
Chandra Kanta Agarwala,Binbaragi, 12 important poems about the past glory of Assam, ancient Assamese ballads strongly influenced the poems;Assamese language[7]
G. Sankara Kurup,Sahitya Kantukam, lyricalMalayalam poems modelled on those ofVallathol Narayana Menon, with original themes, context and diction; the author later published three other volumes with the same title[7]
Kumaran Asan,Karuna, based on the Buddhist legend of Vasavadatta and Upagupta; the author's last poem and an extremely popular one; celebrates compassion (karuna),Malayalam language[7]
Manishankar Bhatt "Kant",Purvalap, a work with a conspicuous romantic mood and classical diction, considered a landmark ofGujarati poetry, according to Sisir Kumar Das; published on the day the poet died[7]
Sukumar Ray,Abol Tabol ("literally, "weird and random"), nonsense verse, Sisir Kumar Das has called it "one of the landmarks in the history ofBengali literature for children"[7]
David Vogel,Lifney Hasha'ar Ha'afel ("Before the Dark Gate"),Hebrew language, published in Vienna, the only book of poems published in the author's lifetime[23]
^Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese.Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 4
^Axelrod, Steven Gould, and Helen Deese.Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. 1988: G. K. Hall & Co., p. 11
^Fleming, Robert,The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print,"African American Book Timeline", p 167 and following pages, Random House, 2000,ISBN978-0-345-42327-6, retrieved via Google Books, February 7, 2009
^Auster, Paul, editor,The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982ISBN0-394-52197-8
^Mohan, Sarala Jag,Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors,Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,ISBN978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
^"Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al.,The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
