Reviews for Miller, Reiter & Robbins

The average rating for Miller, Reiter & Robbins based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-05 00:00:00 Seth Bacon A nice collection of haiku written by poets of the North American Midwest. Many of the poets were given space to write about how the Midwest has influenced their work. It's great and rather rare to read what writers have to say about their own poems in an anthology. Being a Midwestern haiku poet, I found this very relatable and to be a real treasure. My only complaint would be that I'd like to have seen more work represented by each poet. In some cases only a single haiku was listed while others had several, but such is always the case in anthologies. Ah well. This book was printed in 1992 so there is hope that a second edition may come out one day that expands on this theme.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-01-11 00:00:00 Rhys Brigham Wonderful anthology of poems, and especially poets, and precisely those twentieth century poets of the English language. This is one of those early twentieth century anthologies that does not intend to be a survey of world poetry as a whole, but more precisely twentieth century poets that wrote in the English language. Therefore, when it comes to scope, it falls way short of better and more comprehensive surveys like The Norton Anthology of Poetry which grants a comprehensive overview of modern verse. This edition is mainly a revised edition of the original published in the early part of the twentieth century and therefore it is representative mostly of that early era between the wars as represented by poets like Wilfred Owen, D.H.Lawrence and Robert Graves. Overall it is a nice and balanced selection and several modern poets and poems have been added. As for me there are several poems that I had treasured long ago and have revisited in this volume. Along with that there have been several new ones. Pros: This volume has been a good intro to the poetry of Basil Bunting, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Day Lewis and Stephen Spender- poets whom I have discovered only now. Cons: It leaves out several great poets viz Allen Ginsberg, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, James Merrill to name only a few.