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Loading... 100 Plus American Poems (1970)by Paul Molloy
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This second anthology from Molloy is also for high school age teens and covers US poetry from the early 1800's through the 1960's. This is a completely different collection with many familiar poems that most students in a U.S. high school in the sixties would have encountered. However, there were poems by people like Langston Hughes and Peter La Farge that very likely would not have been included in the standard texts of that time. There were several longer poems as well such as The Raven, some war poems, poems on the deaths of Lincoln and Kennedy and some about other people like Daniel Boone and Ray Charles. There was even one by Eugene McCarthy, a Senator and potential Presidential candidate. So, a lot of familiar voices and many new ones for me. Overall, I did enjoy this collection. no reviews | add a review
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I like that there are notes at the end to help the reader with more obscure references. I like the different sections - not only are diverse peoples represented, but so are diverse subjects, tones, and styles.
If you happen to be able to get a copy, I do recommend it. It's aimed at teens, but everyone, even folks not from the US, would enjoy many of these works.
Now I'm off to find me some more May Swenson and Richard Wilbur. ( )