Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 [Paperback]

Don Selby (Author), Diane Boller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2007

Poetry Daily, on the web at http://www.poems.com, is the world's most popular poetry web site, with more than three million visitors each year. Each day, the editors serve a new offering from the best of contemporary poems from poets known and those less known.

Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 is a vibrant collection of poems that have appeared at Poetry Daily, chosen by founding editors Diane Boller and Don Selby. These poems celebrate the diversity of today's thriving poetry culture, with contributions from:

Ted Kooser
Kay Ryan
Louise Glück
Anne Marie Macari
Jane Kenyon
C. K. Williams
Charles Wright
Gerald Stern
Maxine Kumin
W. S. Merwin

With more than 150 selections, Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 includes poems that inspire contemplation and poems that inspire laughter, verse for every mood and moment.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

One-a-day prescriptions can apply to poems as easily as vitamins or the proverbial apple. One easy way to imbibe a daily poem is to visit Poetry Daily (www.poems.com), currently celebrating its tenth anniversary. The vital Web site's founding editors published an anthology titled Poetry Daily in 2003, and now they return with an even more zestful and enjoyable compendium. With little preamble and lots of enthusiasm, Boller and Selby present more than 150 fresh and provocative poems. Just as one never knows what to expect when visiting the Web site, readers are enlivened by unpredictable encounters. There's Elizabeth Spires writing strictly in monosyllables in "In a Field," and then there's Susan Hahn punning in "The Pity of Punctuation." Kevin Prufer reflects on war in "Army Tales," and Timothy Liu offers the subtlest of post-9/11 lyrics in "On Broadway." For all the recognizable and illustrious names, readers will also be introduced to poets new to them in this unusually inspiriting volume. Donna Seaman
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One-a-day prescriptions can apply to poems as easily as vitamins or the proverbial apple. One easy way to imbibe a daily poem is to visit Poetry Daily, currently celebrating its tenth anniversary. The vital Web site's founding editors published an anthology titled Poetry Daily in 2003, and now they return with an even more zestful and enjoyable compendium. With little preamble and lots of enthusiasm, Boller and Selby present more than 150 fresh and provocative poems. Just as one never knows what to expect when visiting the Web site, readers are enlivened by unpredictable encounters. There's Elizabeth Spires writing strictly in monosyllables in "In a Field," and then there's Susan Hahn punning in "The Pity of Punctuation." Kevin Prufer reflects on war in "Army Tales," and Timothy Liu offers the subtlest of post-9/11 lyrics in "On Broadway." For all the recognizable and illustrious names, readers will also be introduced to poets new to them in this unusually inspiriting volume. --Donna Seaman and Don Selby -- Booklist Review, April 2007

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402209274
• ISBN-13: 978-1402209277
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,317,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hi, I'm Mike; and these are two hundred of my closest friends., July 8, 2007

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I am so indebted to Diane and Don for Poetry Daily and now two anthologies culled from their dailies. I am so over letting teachers tell me who is great and who isn't but, on the other hand, trying to keep up with everything that is happening in poetry would require all my money and all my time and then some. So, I need something in the middle: someone who'll throw a poem or two at me each day (okay; two someones: I listen to Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac, too) and like cooking pasta, see what sticks. Okay, so first prize goes to: "Marvell Noir" by Ann Lauinger, since good, contemporary parodies tickle me to no end. And the second, first prize goes to "Up Late, Reading Whitman" which, when I read it at a local open mike, made me something of a god until I had to tell everyone James Kimbrell wrote it, not me. And how in the world can you flip through a poetry anthology and see a title like "Rattlesnakes Hammered to the Wall" by Ray Gonzalez and not slam on the breaks and back up? And if you don't fall on the floor in the bookstore when you're reading "Counterman" by Paul Violi well, you need some serious remediation, man. There you go. A great book. Thanks, Poetry Daily guys, for doing it again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wish there were more!, March 12, 2008

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William E. Brown "Billy Brown" (Albuquerque, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poetry Daily Essentials 2007 (Paperback)

Once again the Poetry Daily people have created a fabulous collection of inspiring poetry!

Their first book, which had a poem for each day of the year, was a source of daily joy and pleasure.

I read each day's poem to my sweetheart for more than two years,
enjoying each poem on its appointed day of the year.

I only wish that this latest effort had 366 poems, instead of only 152,
so that I could enjoy a new one of these fabulous poems EVERY day of the year.

I give my highest praise to this book, as well as to the earlier "Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website (2003).

One of my (and my sweetheart's) all time favorite poems, in the earlier book for the date January 9, is Kim Addonizio's "What Do Women Want."

For any poetry lover: If you are not already accessing daily poems on line from "Poetry Daily," I urge you to check out their web site: www.poems.com

Billy Brown
Poet, Singer, Chef and Mathematics Educator