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When people talk about their “desert island books,” they rarely include any poetry. I get it — poetry can be hard. It makes people think of school. But there is such a wide variety of poems out there, and I bet everyone could find poems to love in these fat anthologies. In poetry, every word counts.
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Mostly 20th century poets, this is the first anthology I fell in love with, back in the early 90s (a previous edition of the book).
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American poets born after 1960.
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Volume 1 of this series focuses on Modernist poetry, and is more wide-ranging than most anthologies.
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Volume 2 is postmodern poetry. I also recommend vols. 3 & 4, but I don't own them [yet].
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A beautiful anthology of First Nations (North American) poetry.
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Mostly 20th century poets, this is the first anthology I fell in love with, back in the early 90s (a previous edition of the book).
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American poets born after 1960.
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Volume 1 of this series focuses on Modernist poetry, and is more wide-ranging than most anthologies.
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Volume 2 is postmodern poetry. I also recommend vols. 3 & 4, but I don't own them [yet].
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A beautiful anthology of First Nations (North American) poetry.
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