[New-Poetry] American Poets Project

[Bob Grumman]

  I'd like to offer another rave recommendation for the wonderful American Poets Project put out by Library of America.  If you haven't seen these books, they are small hardcovers of selected poems by various dead Americans, most introduced by fellow poets.   Rukeyser is edited by Rich; Edward Hirsch does Roethke; David Lehman does Ammons, Elizabeth Alexander does Brooks, etc. 


  The retail price for each is about $20, and I gather there is some degree of subsidy from the estate of James Merrill to produce the books.  


  No project that gives living mediocrities a chance to make a buck off dead poets can be praised too highly.

  --Bob G.
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