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100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century
Edited by Mark Strand
Norton, 320 pages, $24.95
The expected choices are here (T.S. Eliot’s “Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”) as well as ones once known (Ogden Nash’s “Very Like a Whale”). The presence of unfamiliar international voices–from Argentina, Turkey, Italy, Poland–enlarges understanding of the world in a way only poetry can.