I picked up the 2000 book Poetry Slam (edited by Gary Mex Glazner, published by Manic D Press) a while ago after searching for one of the poems in it for, no joke, five years after I'd originally read it. I only came out of it with about five poems I really adored, but my taste in poetry runs a bit more to the classical than yours does. :) (And the poem I did pick it up for - Joseph Brodsky is Dead, by Victor Infante - was worth every cent of the $15 purchase price, to me.)
garrison keillor has a pair of anthologies, good poems and good poems for hard times that are rather lovely, comprised mostly of poems he broadcasts on his show "writer's almanac." i've discovered some wonderful contemporary poets through him.
the winged energy of delight is another of my favorites, a collection translated and assembled by robert bly. the rag and bone shop of the heart is also edited by bly and finds its way into my favorites though it is technically subtitled as an anthology "for" men.
I love my heavily dog-eared copy of "Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry," compiled by Billy Collins. It's $14. "A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems," reads the back.
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the winged energy of delight is another of my favorites, a collection translated and assembled by robert bly. the rag and bone shop of the heart is also edited by bly and finds its way into my favorites though it is technically subtitled as an anthology "for" men.
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http://www.amazon.com/Book-Women-Poets-Antiquity-Now/dp/0805209972/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255818997&sr=8-1
i've bought this book at least three times (one lost, one lost in a flood and one i now have) since high school. i love it. :)
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