Anyone have any poetry anthologies they'd recommend? I have an old Norton's, but it's really packed full of modern stuff that's not very good, and I'd like to get an anthology that includes more confirmed greats and less experimental stuff.

(oh, and for Xmas I got Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, which I've only read the intro and first paragraph of. But what a first paragraph! And I got a technical book on storyboarding computer games, but that doesn't really count as Literary.)

Anyone have any poetry anthologies they'd recommend?

Hmmm, I can't think of exact titles, but I know I've really enjoyed ones on the WWI poets from Britain, and a collection of Pre-Raphaelites.

Oh! You know what's good? The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heany and Ted Hughes.

I love Calvino's Baron In the Trees and Invisible Cities.

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend

There's another Adrian Mole book?!? Must. Get.

the WWI poets from Britain, and a collection of Pre-Raphaelites.

Ooo! Yes! I like both of these genres, and really should look at some focused anthologies for them. And I'm off to Amazon to look at The Rattle Bag.

Oh, I love Invisible Cities. (I think I picked it up a few years ago from your rec, David.) I've been meaning to check out more of his work.

My x-mas presents this year included three pairs of socks and a blaze orange Cincinnati Bengals hat, but no books. Which is cool, I don't really care, but I think I'm going to take myself off to a bookstore and do my own Santa-ing once my next check comes in. I've been compiling recs from this thread for some time now.

a blaze orange Cincinnati Bengals hat.

Dude. My sympathies.

Raquel,

this is also modern (20th Century) but I thought it had lots of good stuff - TS Eliot, ee cummings, Margaret Atwood, William Carlos Williams, lots of other good stuff. The editor. is Canadian, so there are more Canadian poets than you might otherwise find: [link]

If you're looking for not so modern stuff, sorry, that's all I got.

oh, and for Xmas I got Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, which I've only read the intro and first paragraph of. But what a first paragraph!

Oh, I love that book! Easily my favorite Calvino.

I got a SIGNED copy of Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, which my mother picked up for me when she met M.E. Kerr at a conference earlier this year. It is so very cool. I also got Doris Lessing's two-volume autobiography--way cool, lots of stuff about growing up on a farm in Southern Rhodesia--and The Neverending Story, which I am in the middle of, AIFG. Also, my housemate bought me the huge compilation book of all the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories, which I'm rereading and loving all over again.

I bought JZ Sorcery and Cecelia based on recommendations here from Jilli and Betsy (I think).

SF Chron reviewed a novel of interest for the board: The Letters of Mina Harker.

Raquel, I found The Rattle Bag on Amazon UK.