To celebrate the centennial of Poetry magazine, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed through the archives to create a new kind of anthology. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive or definitive, they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtaposition, echo across a century of poetry.
The resulting volume is a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and, most of all, a book that lovers of poetry will devour, debate, and keep close at hand.
View a complete list of poems included in the book at the University of Chicago Press.
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Selected poems from the anthology:
On Leaving the Bachelorette Brunch by Rachel Wetzsteon- Sweeping the States by Jacob Saenz
- A Dog Was Crying To-Night in Wicklow Also by Seamus Heaney
- The Widow's Yard by Isabella Gardner
- Valery as Dictator by Amiri Baraka
