![]() This poetry anthology may one day be a historical artifact, a record not only of great twentieth-century American poetry but also of the literary climate of the early twenty-first century. However, anthologies play more significant roles than simply constituting a "Hall of Fame" of literary achievement. ![]() Who can forget Dove's equally biting response? An extreme example of this sense of intense disappointment is demonstrated in Helen Vendler's November 2011 review of The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, edited by Rita Dove, in which she slammed the book's "multicultural inclusiveness" that underrepresents canonical greats like Wallace Stevens and James Merrill. But in the eyes of this audience, especially in those of its self-invested guardians of poetry, an anthology often is disappointing because of whom it leaves out or includes. A poetry anthology's table of contents is inevitably a "who's who" list talked about by serious poets and writers. ![]()
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