![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Vendler enumerates that "of the 20 poets born between 19 (closing the anthology), fifteen are from minority communities (Hispanic, black, Native American, or Asian American), and five are white (two men, three women)", saying that "Dove's tipping of the balance obeys a populist aesthetic voiced in the introduction". ![]() Selectivity has been condemned as 'elitism', and a hundred flowers are invited to bloom." "No century in the evolution of poetry in English ever had 175 poets worth reading, so why are we being asked to sample so many poets of little or no lasting value? Anthologists may now be extending a too general welcome. "Multicultural inclusiveness prevails," she writes. Vendler lambasts Dove for her inclusion of "some 175" poets and for her choice of poems: "mostly short" and "of rather restricted vocabulary", she says. Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg and Sterling Brown are left out of the anthology – although Dove explains in her introduction that this was down to a rights issue: Penguin's budget was not enough to secure rights to include their poems in the book. ![]()
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