![]() Dove''s selection-and this book-will long stand as the definitive anthology of American poetry., "Selecting poets and poems to represent a century of poetry, especially the riotous twentieth century in America, is a massive undertaking fraught with peril and complication. Most other poetry anthologies give us schools, corners, clubs, and identities, but this one gives us something beyond representative that gets at the extraordinary accomplishment and range of multi-vocal American poetry in the century. In her editorial hands the 20th century is broad but sharply contoured. ![]() It belongs on the bedside table as well as in a backpack." - The Chicago Tribune, At last, 20th century poetry itself! Rita Dove''s is intelligent, generous, surprising, and altogether thrilling to read- literally, a heart-thumping collection. ![]() But it also has enough surprises to make it ideal for the rest of us too. ![]() " The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry has the solid, respectable, upright feel of a book bound for the syllabuses of myriad college courses. ![]()
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