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"This companionable anthology shows how poetry is a discussion, alive and flowing, and how poems speak to, with, and sometimes over one another. If you are a teacher, this is the anthology you wish you had as a student - a text that doesn't try to survey entire time periods or aesthetic areas, but one that places side-by-side poems that speak to each other over time as well as to today's readers. Header notes for each section provide critical commentary and guidance, with discussion and writing suggestions, framing the poems within their given topic and enticing readers"--