poet laureate, professor, and presidential scholar-embarked on what became a consuming four-year odyssey. Poet Rita Dove-a Pulitzer Prize–winning former U.S. "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. poetics has been the series of debates about what we are to value in and about poetry, and one of the tasks of the student of poetry is to develop her own criteria for excellence, taking her cues from the values of her own cultures-inherited, encountered, or taught, as the case may be.” “One of the gifts of twentieth-century U.S. Poet Laureate Dove takes a fresh look at the canon of 20th century American poetry in this hefty anthology This book is sure to become an important resource for those interested in poetry, and especially students, for decades to come."
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