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Title: An Excellent Teaching Text
Review: I'm using this anthology for the poetry seminar I teach at a private high school in the Bay Area. I'm finding it to be the best anthology thus far for this generation (I'd use it for college students as well). The previous reviewer has offered a very comprehensive overview, so I'll just echo the sentiments expressed there. This text makes poetry accessible without dumbing it down. His introduction is also very provocative in terms of pointing out the potential racist, classist, and sexist implications of teaching only the "cannon". My students are thrilled to see a text that contains Frost AND Tupac. I'm using this anthology with Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (a more academic, but radically exciting approach to poetry), and I think that these two texts together make the ideal combination (with supplimentary handouts of other poet's poetry as well).
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