Poetry Anthologies: Great Poems To Savor

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Pinsky, Robert, editor - Essential Pleasures
(808.81 Ess) This anthology focuses on poems that are best read aloud. Divided into ballads, odes, long poems, parodies and story poems, it ranges from the ancients to late 20th century poets. Included are poems by Sappho, Akmatova, Longfellow, St. Vincent Millay, Yeats, and Lewis Carroll.

Berk, Sally and James Wakeman, editors - A Reasonable Affliction: 1001 Love Poems to Read to Each Other
(909.81 Re) Another collection to be spoken out loud, but this time to be shared with someone special. Sections include: Advice to the Lovelorn, Agony and Ecstasy, The Pain of Love, Love Letters, and Fidelity and Infidelity. Find some favorites that can express your feelings for a dear one.

Rampersad, Arnold - The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
811.008 Ox) This book contains work from over two centuries of poets celebrating, describing, and sharing the African-American experience. It  includes meditations on Africa, slavery, spiritualism, love, music, and family, and features work from such greats as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks among others.

Young, Kevin - The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
(811.54 Art) This excellent anthology includes poems on such topics as: For a Funeral Service, Mothers, Fathers, Spouses and Lovers, and Siblings.  It will provide solace for the bereaved and also serve as a great resource for memorial services. All poetry lovers will find much to ponder here.

Felleman, Hazel, editor - The Best Loved Poems of the American People
(808.81 Fe) A classic collection of primarily English and American poetry that includes all the greats: Shakespeare, Shelley, Yeats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Poe.  Enjoy these poems our parents and grandparents learned in school, and that still form the bedrock of our culture.

Collins, Billy - Poetry 180: a Turning Back to Poetry
(811.008 Po) The premise of this book is that contemporary poetry should be accessible & understandable—poems that people “get” on the first reading yet still engender thought and provide sustenance. A small anthology that celebrates both the everyday and the extraordinary.

Forche, Carolyn, editor - Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness
(808.81 Ag) This book includes poems of protest and poems that give social witness to lives lost and harmed by tyranny, terrorism, and oppression.  As Bertolt Brecht said, “In the dark times, there will be singing.”

Barnstone, Aliki and Willis Barnstone - A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now
(808.81 Bo) “Someone I tell you will remember us,” Greek poet Sappho once said.  This collection is replete with work by women poets from many countries and many time periods writing of love, loss, family, travel, home, work, and adventures.  A wonderful collection to be enjoyed often.

Auden, W. H., editor - The Oxford Book of Light Verse
(808.81 Ox) Poetry is not all somber, factual and pondering great truths. This collection shows its humorous side from the nonsense poetry of Edward Lear to limericks by Houseman and Belloc. This collection will make you chuckle as it ferries you “to the land where the bong trees grow.”

Liu, Wu-chi and Irving Yucheng Lo - Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry
(895.1 Su) This collection covers all major periods and styles of Chinese poetry from the dawn of the art to the mid-20th century, translated by over fifty individuals. A broad sampling of the richness of Chinese poetry that helps you understand the country by sharing the beauty and range of its poetic art.

Weingarten and Richard Higgerson, editors - Poets of the New Century
(811.008 Po) A snapshot of American poetry at the dawn of the new millennium that covers a range of talented poets including Alison Deming, Deborah Digges, Timothy Li, Susan Mitchell, Chase Twichell, and Gary Soto.

Niatum, Dwayne, editor - Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry
(811.008 Ha) The definitive anthology of modern Native American poetry. Includes work by N. Scott Momaday, Joy Harjo, James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Ray Young Bear and Paula Gunn Allen. The poems inspire and inform, allowing us to learn about the history, myths, music, and spiritualism of our first people and share in their deep connection to this land.

Hass, Robert, editor - The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa
(895.6 Es) How can one describe the world in seventeen syllables? These three masters of the traditional Japanese art succeed incredibly, giving us beauty, pathos, love, longing, along with a word that anchors the season—all in three short lines.  A book of small poems for those who want to celebrate the moment.
 

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