The Orators
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When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as...
L'écrivain de la famille
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At seven years old, Edouard writes his first poems; it makes him the "writer of the family". But the...
Love Me Do
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'Love Me Do' offers a fresh and distinctive look at how we live our lives. Lydia Macpherson's poems...
Girls Are Coming Out Of The Woods
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'In Girls are Coming out of the Woods, Tishani Doshi combines artistic elegance with a visceral...
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
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The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of...
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Falling Ill
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C.K. Williams (1936-2015) was the most challenging American poet of his generation, a shape-shifting...
Dana (24 KP) rated The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry in Books
Mar 23, 2018
I loved reading the biographies of the poets before diving into the actual poetry.
I had to get this book for one of my English classes in college, and it helped a lot with the understanding of the poetry. It was great because it included all of the footnotes that worked in tandem with the enjoyment of the poems.
I loved reading Langston Hughes the most. I had been introduced to a few of his poems, but this was the first time I had gotten to read so many. I love his style of writing in comparison to a lot of the other poets we read.
I can honestly say that TS Eliot is not my favorite Modernist poet, especially since it seems like each professor has us read at least one of his poems a quarter.
Overall, this is a super cool book to pick up, even if you aren't a huge fan of poetry, but want to be introduced to a lot of different styles.
