[New-Poetry] Re: Poet’s Bookshelf II

[jforjames at aol.com]

Poet’s Bookshelf II
http://www.bsu.edu/classes/koontz/barnwood/indbks/davis2.htm
Edited by Peter Davis and  Tom Koontz

 

As with P B I, the book contains a large (101, in fact) and diverse crop of contemporary poets. The editor was consciously trying to cut across a range of poetic sensibilities.

 

As in the first book, the poets were asked to “name 5-10 books that have been 'essential' to you, as a poet.” And then to make some comments on the books they’d chosen.

 

It would have been nice if they’d compiled a complete bibliography of the books mentioned.  But as in the last book, they did tabulate the selections, listing the most frequently named authors…

 

Wallace Stevens (16)
Emily Dickinson (14)
Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman (13)
Elizabeth Bishop, Wm. Shakespeare, William Stafford, Gertrud Stein, William Carlos, Williams (12)
Then, slipping into single digits…
John Ashbery, T.S. Eliot, Richard Hugo, Frank O’Hara, Sylvia Plath, James Wright (9)
Ezra Pound, Ranier Maria Rilke (8)
And so on…



Finnegan



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