Americans' Favorite Poems by Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)

old black and gay student from Georgia relating to the torment and struggles within Countee Cullen's 'Yet Do I Marvel' and a 75 yr. The poems are chosen by Americans from all backgrounds, for instance, a 19 yr. I would recommend this anthology to any skeptics of poetry or those who have found poetry too intimidating or obscure for every day consumption. A selection of these poems and accompanying commentary have been assembled in this anthology. When appointed Poet Laureate in 1997, Robert Pinsky promoted poetry by initiating the 'Favorite Poem Project,' which invited submissions from Americans to share their favorite poems and the reasons for their choice.

This anthology, in a manner unlike any other, discloses the rich and vigorous presence of poetry in American life at the millennium and provides a portrait of the United States through the lens of poetry. Accompanying the poems are comments by people who speak not as professional critics but as passionate readers of various ages, professions and regions. The poems and poets in this anthology―from Sappho to Lorca, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Gwendolyn Brooks, Louise Bluck, and Allen Ginsberg―are poems to be read aloud and memorized, poems to be celebrated as part of our nation's cultural inheritance.

Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood some crystallize the passion of love or recall the trail of loss and sorrow. The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. This anthology embodies Robert Pinsky's commitment to discover America's beloved poems, his special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States.

Americans' Favorite Poems by Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)