I've just pulled the first eight anthologies I could find on my shelves, and Bogan is included in six of them:
--Louis Untermeyer(ed), Modern American Poetry
--Hayden Carruth(ed), The Voice that Is Great Within Us
--Oscar Williams(ed), The Pocket Anthology of American Verse
--Ellen Bass(ed), No More Masks!
--Gioia, Mason, Schoerke (eds), 20th Century American Poetry
--The Norton Anthology of Women's Literature
These two do not include any of her work:
--F O Mattheissen (ed), The Oxford Book of American Verse
--Donald Hall(ed), Contemporary American Poetry
The Mattheissen only includes ONE 20th century female poet (Millay) and the Hall does not include any poets born before 1900.
That's not a bad rate of inclusion by any means of reckoning. And the No More Masks!--one of the first expressively "feminist" anthologies of poetry printed in the US--includes "Women."
[This message has been edited by nyctom (edited July 05, 2004).]
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