I was wondering about how people feel about David Lehman's Best American Poetry anthologies.
Do you love them?
Do you hate them?
Do you read them?
www.bestamericanpoetry.com/
Do you love them?
Do you hate them?
Do you read them?
www.bestamericanpoetry.com/
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Re: Best American Poetry series
Mon, January 10, 2005 - 12:35 AMI read them on and off. But it seems most of the poetry comes from academia. Take a look at:
www.jefferybahr.com/Publicat...tats.html
It's Jeff Bahr's statistical analysis on who gets published in BAP. -
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Re: Best American Poetry series
Mon, January 10, 2005 - 12:24 PMGreat link.
It explains a lot of what I don't like about BAP. I wonder if Lehman and co. have taken this sort of criticism seriously, because I noticed in the 2004 book there is a poem by Will Alexander, who I'd not call academic.
On another note, I just picked up Lehman's prose poetry anthology and it full of the same damn poets as BAP!
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