[New-Poetry] Re: Poet’s Bookshelf II

[John Latta]

Splendid, that Richard Hugo'd rank so high. (Though, as I write that, I 
think, it's almost certainly due to _The Triggering Town_, rather than to 
the poems.)

I always loved the letter poems.

John


On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, jforjames at aol.com wrote:

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