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The Poetry Symposium [NY Times Book Review]:

The Book Review recently asked a handful of poets and critics to respond to this question: What book of poetry, published in the last 25 years, has meant the most to you personally -- the book you have found yourself returning to again and again? We asked them not to select reissues, or volumes of a poet's ''selected'' or ''collected'' work.

Their selections:

• John Ashbery chose James Tate, Reckoner (Wesleyan University, 1986).


• Jorie Graham chose Denis Johnson, The Incognito Lounge: And Other Poems (Random House, 1982).


• Jim Harrison chose Gary Snyder, Danger On Peaks (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004); and Ted Kooser, Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon, 2004).


• Robert Pinsky chose James McMichael, Four Good Things (Houghton Mifflin, 1980).


• Mary Karr chose Zbigniew Herbert, Report From The Besieged City (Ecco, 1985).


• James Fenton chose Thom Gunn, The Man With Night Sweats (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992).


• Sapphire chose Lucille Clifton, Next (BOA Editions, 1987).


• Harold Bloom chose John Ashbery, As We Know (Viking, 1979).


• Sharon Olds chose Stanley Kunitz, Next-To-Last Things (Atlantic Monthly, 1985); Yusef Komunyakaa, Magic City (Wesleyan University, 1992); and Deborah Digges, Trapeze (Knopf, 2004).

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