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Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century
June 24, 2009
Though I didn't like all of the poets represented in this book (I suppose that's not entirely feasible with any anthology), I give the book 5 stars because, well, I enjoy this "type" of poetry and it was cool discovering new poets to read.American poets born after 1960 in india American poets born after 1960 pictures Famous american poets 21st century American male poets 20th century
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Now, this anthology certainly won't be for everyone, I think many of these poems are "experimental" in the sense that the poets are trying to write a "new" type of poem that plays with and sometimes undermines traditional poetic form and even narrative; moreover, this is a sampling of emerging poets who are mostly in their 30s so the work is imperfect at times.
Or it's imperfect because the traditional form is made so unstable in these poems that they can sometimes seem...I don't know...ragged, drifting, confusing. It's not Hass or Blake or Po Chu-I or Mary Oliver, in other words.
Also, if you're not into "intellectual" poetry or poetry riffing on theory, then you might not li