Selections from the work of twenty-three modern poets, from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gary Snyder and Leroi Jones, including tra...
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Dec 29, 2009
Cindy
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This is Roses are Red for an older set, and great for the class on how to teach poetry in community arts venues for my students.
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Feb 07, 2008
M. M. Sana
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This book contains a great collection of all of the great poets. It is meant for college level students and it is meant to be instructional to help analyze poetry and write poetry, encouraging different styles. A selection of all of the great poets (dead and alive) are in this book: Whitman, Hopkins, Rimbaud, Yeats, Stein, Rilke, Stevens, Apollinaire, Williams, Lawrence, Pound, Mayakowsky, Cummings, Lorca, Auden, Ginsberg, O'Hara, Ashbery, Snyder, Jones, Koch (the editor) and my personal favor
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Oct 20, 2009
S.
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For high school students (I hear) but I really enjoyed the selections and the short essays that followed.
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Nov 20, 2010
Jimmy
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Contains some great suggestions for writing poems, especially for younger writers.
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Jan 31, 2012
Betzi
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A bit too brief an overview for my taste --nonetheless a solid and varied selection. A decent intro to those who aren't familiar with poetry, but conniseurs will find most these poems already occupying a space on their bookshelf.
Sep 09, 2010
Mia
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Next year, as part of a writer-in-residence gig, I'll teach high school students. I'm going to use this book, among others. Most creative writing books drive me nuts and so I've never used any before. (They seem to so emphasize biography over craft, for instance). I like Koch's light touch here. His essays are a bit too loosely written and cute for me, but he gives great prompts. The lineation gets screwed up for a number of poets, and he does excerpt, but we'll work with that.
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Jun 27, 2009
Colin
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Selections are wonderful and essays are great. My only complaint is the lackluster Dickinson and Wallace Stevens selections. Oh well. Great otherwise.
Nov 15, 2008
Jane
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An exceptional little anthology of modern poetry for anyone, including beginners, with straightforward & insightful introductory essays, a very slim selection, and instructions for writing poems "in the style of," which (even if you don't do it) is illuminating. Includes Bishop and O'Hara as well as Stevens and Eliot, IIRC.
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Feb 08, 2008
Laura
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This is a great intro poetry anthology for college-level students, even though it's technically for high school students, and looks kind of like a children's book. It's much better than 2/3 of the anthologies out there...a good selection - challenging and offbeat.
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Feb 13, 2008
Elizabeth
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Another book I read for a poetry class. This book also gives some good advice/exercises for those wanting to write poetry. It is broken down into authors and gives some background on the poets which helps to understand their poetry in some cases.
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Jan 27, 2008
Steve
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This was the first book of poetry i experienced.
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