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Title: The Best American Poetry 2002 (Best American Poetry (Paper)) by Robert Creeley, David Lehman ISBN: 0-7432-0386-0 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.12 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: People can get so hostile
Comment: Maybe too many aspiring poets hold inclusion in "The Best American Poetry" as being the pinnacle of having "arrived." This reasoning makes for a lot of frustrated poets, who feel as if their work is more deserving, which in turn makes for negative reviews. There are a lot of talented writers in this volume, writers whose work might have been overlooked or lost on readers, because so many poets don't turn to literary journals--they turn to this anthology to see who's who. I'm sure that younger poets (and very talented poets) such as Sarah Manguso and Jenny Boully benefited from this anthology because their work suddenly found hundreds of new readers. Of course, there is also bad, very bad poetry in this collection. However, I'm willing to take the good with the bad if it means having a yearly summary of the current poetry scene.
Rating: 1
Summary: Indulgent verbal nonsense
Comment: There are basically two schools of American poetry these days. One descends from the postromantic lyric, the other from Black Mountain (by way of the Pisan Cantos) where only language (not content, not anecdote) counts. This collection contains mostly poems by poets who have an extraordinary gift for free-association. Very few of these poems make any contextual sense and fewer still make any _grammatical_ sense. Are these the "best" poems of 2002? Not by a country mile. In fact, try imagining readers in 2050 reading this book. How many of these poems will endure? How many will resonate in the minds of the average college student fifty years hence? To be sure, choosing the "best" of anything is always a reflection of the editor, but Mr. Creeley has lost all sense of judiciousness and cultural perspective here. Most of the choices here are simply incomprehensible. They are the random babblings of massively gifted poets with little or nothing to say. And what little they do have to say is unmemorable. Blah.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not the Best American Poetry at all
Comment: Adrienne Rich did a much better job of editing this series. Unfortunately, it seems that David Lehman's flip style of nonsense poetry of unimportance and clever witty self-involved and boring poetry has permeated the collections for 2001 and 2002. Both last year's, supposedly edited by Robert Hass, hard to believe, and this 2002 volume, supposedly edited by Robert Creeley, also hard to believe, are full of David Lehman's silliness, his air-headed cleverness. Lehman is no judge of great poetry, and very much wedded to the light-weight qualities of the New York School of poetry, i.e. those who think, for one example, that Anne Waldman can write when words are definitely not her medium! There is not enough good, solid poetry in either of these volumes, and too many supposedely experimental, witticism that float off to nowhere. Time will show that David Lehman's taste had a terrible influence, along with Bush's light-weight Billy Collin's, on the current years of American Poetry--not at all in the tradition of our greats, i.e. Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Galway Kinnell, Allen Ginsberg, June Jordan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Denise Levertov, etc., but in the tradition of his clique and "in" crowd who will be on the outs of the final reckoning. Under his editorship, the series has become NOT the Best American Poetry despite a few good poems here and there and too much airy, worthless wit.
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Title: The Best American Poetry 2001 (Best American Poetry (Paper)) by David Lehman, Robert Hass ISBN: 0743203844 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Best American Short Stories 2002 by Sue Miller ISBN: 0618131736 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 2003 : Series Editor David Lehman by David Lehman, Yusef Komunyakaa ISBN: 0743203887 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: 2003 Poet's Market (Poet's Market, 2003) by Nancy Breen, Vanessa Lyman ISBN: 1582971242 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Best American Poetry 1999 by Robert Bly, David Lehman ISBN: 0684860031 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 08 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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