[New-Poetry] Poet's Ideal Library

[David Graham]

I wish I had time to jump in on the discussion more fully, but alas.  Of
course a comprehensive list is impossible, but fun to contemplate.

But in some ways I'm more interested in a Desert Island list that folks
might come up with, since by definition such short lists reveal things,
sometimes even interesting things.

My own Desert Island bag would have nothing but poetry, probably--no
critical prose at all.  The Norton Anthology of Eng. Lit would be a good
start, then of course collected editions of my personal pantheon, including
Shakespeare, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Williams.

But if I were allowed a second carry-on just for prose, I'd first reach for
Randall Jarrell's essays.


On 3/29/07 11:11 AM, "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> That's actually almost what we have.
> 
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> Imagine the list we'd have if we included all the books that all
>> those folks *would* have.
>> 
>> Hal


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