[New-Poetry] POET'S BOOKSHELF II

Tue Feb 12 23:31:21 EST 2008

It's a good anthology, agreed...but I find it odd that it comes in second to the Bible even in a somewhat haphazard survey of poets and the books that most influenced them.
Finnegan

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The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry
is a *great* collection. It would be on my list.

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On Feb 12, 2008, at 7:12 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:

As in the Poet's Bookshelf I, the editor has really chosen a wide array of poets to query. The first volume was a fun browse. Most of the poets named other books of poetry as their prime influences, which I guess shouldn't be a  big surprise. I did wish a few more had ventured beyond the bounds of their 'home art' for their prime movers. The Bible was the most frequently named text (the Good Book keeps on giving), followed by Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (go figure), and New American Poetry (more expected). And then the writers most named...

W. C. Williams (17)

Walt Whitman (16)

Emily Dickinson (16)

Frank O'Hara (12)

William Shakespeare (11)

Wm. Butler Yeats (11)
Wallace Steven (10)
dropping down into the single digits...

Rainer Maria Rilke (9)
John Ashbery (9)
Frederico Garcia Lorca (8)

Ezra Pound (8)
Elizabeth Bishop (8)
Sylvia Plath (8)
Hart Crane (7)
Allen Ginsberg (7)
James Wright (7)
Then lots of names with 6, 5, 4 or fewer mentions.

Finnegan

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