Optimal filtering Book

This book contains a great collection of all of the great poets. It is meant for college level students and it is meant to be instructional to help analyze poetry and write poetry, encouraging different styles. A selection of all of the great poets (dead and alive) are in this book: Whitman, Hopkins, Rimbaud, Yeats, Stein, Rilke, Stevens, Apollinaire, Williams, Lawrence, Pound, Mayakowsky, Cummings, Lorca, Auden, Ginsberg, O'Hara, Ashbery, Snyder, Jones, Koch (the editor) and my personal favorite Emily Dickinson. I really liked that after each author's section there is a note about the author followed by an assignment giving instructions to write about an idea or in a certain style. It has some good exercises to break through a writer's block. Great for a poetry class, which is where I started reading it.