From under my massive pile of work and meetings I implore you: please tell me about your favorite contemporary poetry anthology! I just found out that I'm teaching an upper level undergrad + grad "New Poetry" class in Fall 07, and I need input. I wish I were cool enough to figure out how to teach a survey with single books only, but alas, the pacing evades me.
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Legitimate Danger Ed. Cate Marvin and Michael Dumanis.
I love it.
hi mary--good to see you at WW! i am a little old school and like the poulin one too...but i've had great success with the newest one from RS gwynn-plus it's cheap for students too!
Thanks folks! Keep 'em coming.
Woody, I feel awful for shortchanging the squirrels I see every day, since apparently they can be very insightful. I will try to bring a few squirrels to class in my bag today, and see if they will do a guest lecture.
PS--Thanks for the curricular tips! That's an awesome strategy.
I like Introspections: American Poets on One of Their Poems, which features essays by poets discussing some aspect of a poem they wrote, alongside the poem.
Also, I *heart* Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms, which approaches form in poetry from a non-formalist perspective.
I like R.S. Gwynn and April Lindner's anthology,
"http://www.amazon.com/Contemporary-American-Poetry-Penguin-Academics/dp/0321182820/sr=1-2/qid=1163714678/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-0147852-0512904?ie=UTF8&s=books">Contemporary American Poetry.
I don't know about Legitimate Dangers, but a friend of mine, Sabrina Orah Mark, is in it.
I'll probably be labeled an idiot by some of your readers, Mary, but I also like Cary Nelson's book. But, that book is "Modern poetry," not contemporary poetry.
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I like Kevin Prufer's, The New Young American Poets, for a college class.
The Paul Hoover Postmodern American Poetry, though it's getting a little old now, is still a great read.
Legit. Dangers is a fine anthology, as well, but it's ultra contemporary. In college classes, I've found if students don't know how poetry got from 1955 to 2005, 2005 is going to hit them a bit off. It really depends on where the students are coming from.
I think.
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