"Great poetry is personal," writes Christopher Burns in his introduction to this extraordinary collection. "The poet brings the words, you bring your life, and together you make the song." The Seashell Anthology is a gathering of the great poems, organized by subject in a meaningful and provocative way. Included here are Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, and William Butler Yeats. There are haunting works by Anne Sexton, Denise Levertov, Langston Hughes, and Robert Lowell. Poets as diverse as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Sara Teasdale, and Gary Snyder, for example, echo the themes and images of "Western Wind" hundreds of years apart. Maya Angelou, and Janet Flanders, like talk show guests on stools, describe their mothers. Separated by more than a century, Robert Browning and Richard Wilbur talk about the way men look at women. Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg describe the America each has found. Many poems will be familiar but others, less celebrated, are powerful and cannot soon be forgotten. $7.50

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