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Title: The Best American Poetry 2001 (Best American Poetry (Paper)) by David Lehman, Robert Hass ISBN: 0-7432-0384-4 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.23 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too much literature and not enough poetry
Comment: This series is becoming more and more boring with time. The main reason is that it is more and more "intelectual" and smells university. Many poems are well written by today's standards, but that may just be the best way to write a bad poem. A bad poem can be considered good literature, but many good ones were considered in their time bad literature. I didn't buy this book, I read a lot of pages in the store and didn't even find three poems to make me part from my 15 bucks. The other volumes I have just sit in my library and just one or two poems in the 4 volumes I have really hit the score and make want to come back again. Want a good american anthology? Then go fot Alan kaufman's "The Outlaw bible of American poetry". Another good one is the "vintage book of American poetry". I hope someone tries to compete with this series because there is a lot of great stuff going on, the editors here seem to be fishing in the wrong waters.
Rating: 5
Summary: Poetry to the Rescue
Comment: In a time of struggle we turn to poems, at least I do, and there are poems here that make me feel that poetry has so many disguises, so many different "looks," that it mirrors the vast diversity of this great land in that noble respect. No one can like them all equally but we can be glad they exist. I love the comic poems, poems of charm and wit, and am less crazy about the dry academic "languagey" poems, but that's just me. The essay by Robert Hass is superb and the foreword by the series editor has so much energy and information it's a delight. Maybe no poem in the book is as great as Auden's "September 1, 1939," but if you read Ashbury, or Donald Hall, or Adrienne Rich, or Robert Creeley, or Olena Kalytiak Davis, you'll feel in your heart of hearts that indeed "we must love one another and die," and for as noble a cause as freedom, if not joy, poetry and life itself. Heartily recommended.
Rating: 3
Summary: The usual best and worst of poetry
Comment: Nearly every edition in this series contains I like and poems I hate. It really does depend on the editor's tastes. Since Hass is big on ambiguity, language poetry, and fragmented narratives, many of the poems here follow that. My favorites include: Bly, Rich, Lydia Davis, James Galvin. I think overall this is one of the top few books in this series. I can already see that I'm not going to like the 2002 edited by Creeley
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Title: The Best American Poetry 2002 by David Lehman, Robert Creeley ISBN: 0743203860 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 2000 (Best American Poetry (Paper), 2000) by Rita Dove, David Lehman ISBN: 0743200330 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 1999 by David Lehman, Unknown Unknown ISBN: 0684860031 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 08 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 2003 : Series Editor David Lehman by David Lehman, Yusef Komunyakaa ISBN: 0743203887 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 1997 (Paper) by James Tate, David Lehman ISBN: 0684814528 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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