Hmmm. Mary Jo Salter is all right--not my favorite, but okay--and I know I've read some Sharon Olds, but I have absolutely no memory of the poems themselves.
One suggestion I have: got to the library and check out some current or back issues of literary magazines. I really like Tin House and The Paris Review for poetry, and the monthly Poetry has some good stuff as well. And, not showing favoritism or anything ;), but The Kenyon Review usually prints interesting poems. (And that's just the ones they print...I saw some great stuff I had to reject because it wasn't quite great enough, if you know what I mean.) The fiction is impossible, but the poetry's good.
Out of those, Poetry prints more new and emerging poets, so for a 20-page paper, you're probably going to need to go to the famous, established journals that print lots of famous, established poets. Unless you're tracing a particular theme or motif through the work of several poets, or something like that...
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Date: 2007-05-04 09:24 pm (UTC)One suggestion I have: got to the library and check out some current or back issues of literary magazines. I really like Tin House and The Paris Review for poetry, and the monthly Poetry has some good stuff as well. And, not showing favoritism or anything ;), but The Kenyon Review usually prints interesting poems. (And that's just the ones they print...I saw some great stuff I had to reject because it wasn't quite great enough, if you know what I mean.) The fiction is impossible, but the poetry's good.
Out of those, Poetry prints more new and emerging poets, so for a 20-page paper, you're probably going to need to go to the famous, established journals that print lots of famous, established poets. Unless you're tracing a particular theme or motif through the work of several poets, or something like that...