Yeah, the Gary Geddes 20th Century Poetry and Poetics is a great anthology for modern and Canadian poets, I still have a well-read copy from first-year college English. It is just English-language poets, no translations of foreign-language poets.
If you want the very best in American poetry from the late Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century I would recommend Joel Connaroe's Six American Poets and the follow-up Eight American Poets. The first one covers Whitman, Dickinson, Williams, Stevens, Frost, and Langston Hughes. I forget who the next one covers but I believe that Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath are in there.
Finally, The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men edited by Robert Bly, Michael Meade and James Hillman has some really good (and very eclectic) stuff, including non-English language poets in translation such as Neruda, Rumi, Lorca, and Cesar Vallejo, with poems divided into sections based upon theme. Don't let the title fool you, anyone who loves poetry-and thinking about poetry-will love it.
Just bought
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth (40% off). anyone read it?
Ooo, thanks guys. I'm bookmarking posts like mad. Basically I realized that I've got three poetry books - one's the Norton, one is an "Intro to Poetry" textbook I used for teaching, and one is a "how to analyze poetry" from 1963, which still has some good points, but doesn't contain a lot of actual poetry.
I've then got some specific collections, like Byron and Cisneros and Angelou, but I'm looking for a couple reference books, when I want to find a certain poem or just look for one. So these are all great recs!
Are there going to be more books about Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell?
Because I've finished my copy and
I want Jonathan and his wife to be able to be
together again.
I don't believe it's a series, sumi. (Although, me too. I may have gotten teary. A little. Um.)
That's too bad.
Of course, I cannot imagine somebody producing another big giant novel as good as the first one.
I'd love there to be more Jonathan Strange (and less Mr. Norrell!)
Didn't it take her 20 years to write this book? Of course, that's with a full time job as well.
I still haven't read Jonathan Strange, although I bought it the week it came out. Bad reader, no donut.
