[.ca] Poems for the Millennium: The University of California ... (ISBN 0520208641)

poetry? you bet!:
if you get this volume you have to get the first volume and the OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY. if modern american poetry is something that gets you goin, then these volumes are for you. rothenberg does a great job of introducing and giving information, critiques, etc of the poetry encased in these volumes. dig it, man. dig it.

Filled to the brim with poetry:
Both of these volumes are tremendous works illustrating a wide range of poetry from a wide range of voices. I love how the sections are delineated, and there is a wealth of information about poets, poems, schools of thought and poetics along with the actual poems. I learned a lot about poetry just by reading these two volumes. This is truly an example of wonderful, dedicated editing.

At Last, A Worthwhile Mainstream Poetry Anthology:
This is the first poetry anthology published by a university or commercial press that covers just about the full range of poetry, as I know it. True, in many areas (e.g., pluraesthetic poetry, or poetry that mixes expressive modalities such as visual poetry) it's twenty or more years behind the times, but when you compare it to such duds as David Lehman's Wilbur-to-Ashbery "best American poetry" anthologies, which are forty years behind the times on all fronts, and the Norton thing on "post-modernist poetry," which is only within twenty years of the times in its inclusion of specimens of "sprung-grammar poetry" (my term for what most people refer to as "language poetry"), it's hard to fault it for that. Hence, I recommend it to all serious readers of poetry

A very detailed book dedicated to poetry:
Personally I found that this book was very informative and aimed towards the people who are involved in poetry so it was more on a level basis that gives numerous examples of different types.