The Poetry Anthology - by Joseph Parisi & Stephen Young (Paperback)

About the Book

Publishing monthly without interruption, "Poetry" has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades--an unprecedented record.

Book Synopsis

Publishing monthly without interruption, Poetry has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades-an unprecedented record.

Review Quotes

A great catch...I so thoroughly enjoyed this book that every time I lay eyes on it I can't help picking it up - even if it is for the hundredth time.

A Who's Who of American verse...a landmark collection.... Highly recommended.

For the LOVER of poetry there is much to savor here...

It is a fitting collection that not only features their work, but helped place them in the pantheon.

One of the premier single-volume anthologies available.

Superb and invaluable...comprehensive and thrilling...a veritable history of twentieth-century poetry in English.... A tremendous resource.

The two kinds of anthology-that of summary and that of advocacy-will suffice to define the type of Parisi's book.

This anthology makes clear that American poetry is as powerful, diverse, and vibrant as ever.

This modest Chicago monthly has featured not only many of the 20th century's greatest poets, but also many of their famous poems. It is pleasant to think, given everything that Poetry has meant to literature in the last 100 years and everything it may yet mean to generations of readers that it will not have such troubles in the future.