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The Best American Poetry 1991 Best American Poetry 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Conventional wisdom has it that most of the poetry written in an
era is fated to be minor. In the cosmic view of things, this prop-
osition seems self-evident. Judged by the standards of Shakespeare
and Milton, how many contemporaries will strike future genera-
tions as major? Critics, whose job it is to make discriminations,
are not the only ones who put poets in their place. The poets
themselves do it unconsciously. It may help motivate us--some of
us anyway--to adopt Hemingway s metaphor and imagine that we
are getting into the ring with Rilke when we write our next poem.
Reading, however, as lovers of poetry rather than as pugnacious
aspirants to personal greatness, we are bound to be less severe in
our judgment, more generous with our hearts. Reading for the
pure pleasure of it, we find abundance.
Tracking the poetry published in the United States in any one
year is an instructive experience. The first time you do it, you
might begin with a cool skepticism. You can t imagine coming
across seventy-five poems worthy of acclaim. What you realize
soon enough is that it s a difficult task just to keep up with what s
out there--there is so much of it, and so much of it is Rood. One
The Best American Poetry 1991 Best American Poetry 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书