I'm in the middle of reading Best American Poetry 2011, ed. Kevin Young, and I'm finding quite a bit to like. I can't say there's much properly formal poetry, nor would I expect it. This is all tangential to the discussion, I realize, but so long as the selection is transparently subjective (and how could it not be subjective?), then what is the problem, really? You can't edit these anthologies without someone feeling hacked off, can you?
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