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Raking up the century's best poetic leaves.(Features)(Books)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20000413
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AMERICAN POETRY: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker 986 pp., $35

Volume Two: E.E. Cummings to May Swenson 1009 pp., $35 The Library of America

There are more poems in the world

Than empty beer bottles.

So many millions of poems have been written!

What happens to them all? Who reads them?

I remember so many I have loved at one time or another

and then lost somewhere along the way.

So writes Lindley Williams Hubbell, one of more than 200 poets represented in what are just the first two volumes of The Library of ...

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