From spoonriveranthology.net: "Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology was an immediate commercial success when it was published in 1915. Unconventional in both style and content, it shattered the myths of small town American life. A collection of epitaphs of residents of a small town, a full understanding of Spoon River requires the reader to piece together narratives from fragments contained in individual poems."
May Swenson Knihy
Anna Swenson bola jednou z popredných amerických básničiek polovice 20. storočia. Jej poézia vyniká precíznym a očarujúcim obrazným jazykom a osobitými, imaginatívnymi postrehmi. Dokázala vystihnúť metafyzické dôsledky hmotného sveta, ale jej tvorba je zároveň poznačená ľahkosťou a radosťou zo života. Svetlo sveta uzreli jej verše plné sviežosti a bystrého vnímania.
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, a collection that gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations.From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas and Louise Glück, this anthology takes the full measure of our poetry's daring energies and its tender understandings.Other poets Sylvia PlathJames MerrillAmy clampittJorie GrahamW. S. MerwinCharles SimicAllen GinsbergFrank O'HaraAnne SextonRobert CreeleySharon OldsMary OliverRobert PinskyMark StrandDenise LevertovRichard WilburMay SwensonMichael PalmerMark DotyYusef Komunyakaa