@rnv Thanks for catching that incorrect link. Here's the correct one for Underlife; and here's a link to an essay about the controversy surrounding Dove's anthology. I don't have links handy to the Vendler and Perloff reviews that Evie Shockley talks about there, though I think she links to them. I tend to agree with Shockley's perspective, not just about how race plays into this all, but also about her assertion that the anthology--unlike Norton and other similar colllections--is more for poets than for scholars. I've used it in the poetry workshop I teach as part of our AA in creative writing, and it works like charm, in a way that those other anthologies would not.

I've read both Harél's and O'Neil's books, but, to be honest, I don't remember them well enough to say more than that I liked them. I will need to reread them in order to teach them, so I will try to remember to come back and post something more substantive then.