A key word in that bookshelf thing was "essential" I think -- sort of like "the essential Shakespeare" including the most famous monologues and Sonnet #28.
This is an "abridged encyclopedia" approach, or rather, enforces the encyclopedic approach, rather than an inclusive "all the words" dictionary-type approach.
That it, it is a sort of greatest hits question, or an essences question.
to be or not to be; that with which to be your poetry, your poetry can't be without
so the educational poetry, the poetry you had starting out, would not be a very wrong answer
or, cheat and say every Louis Underwood anthology, every Norton anthology, etc.... (like my Poulin anthology love poems)
I couldn't have written the poems in DaDaDa without the women writers of the 13th century, the Norton Anthology, the Greek Anthology, a Palm Pilot, MS PowerPoint, some Boolean algebra. I couldn't have written the poems in Locket without the modernist poets and the New York School poets.
This is an "abridged encyclopedia" approach, or rather, enforces the encyclopedic approach, rather than an inclusive "all the words" dictionary-type approach.
That it, it is a sort of greatest hits question, or an essences question.
to be or not to be; that with which to be your poetry, your poetry can't be without
so the educational poetry, the poetry you had starting out, would not be a very wrong answer
or, cheat and say every Louis Underwood anthology, every Norton anthology, etc.... (like my Poulin anthology love poems)
I couldn't have written the poems in DaDaDa without the women writers of the 13th century, the Norton Anthology, the Greek Anthology, a Palm Pilot, MS PowerPoint, some Boolean algebra. I couldn't have written the poems in Locket without the modernist poets and the New York School poets.
Comments