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'American Poetry' Brings in All the Voices

By Leigh Kohnle

Port Folio Weekly | October 24, 2007

While a full read is a bit much for most, I avidly suggest that everyone read at least some, because what's in this book of old poetry isn't old news. American Poetry makes an unprecedented claim about American literary history -- it tells us that we don't only descend from New England.

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Tags: American Poetry: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, David Shields, ed., Poetry Reviews

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