The Red and Black

Issue date: 4/30/09 Section: Out & About

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I've never been one to sit down and read poems, but I am very big on immediate gratification, Full of short poems, "The Voice That Is Great Within Us" tricks me into thinking I've made steady progress after only two minutes.

Time becomes unidentifiable when flying through this compilation of classic poems from the past century.

A mixture of classic, household names and more obscure but equally vital authors makes this a 700-page wonder.

Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings and T.S. Eliot bring their most well-known work to the table, while readers fall in love with Hart Crane and Galway Kinnell in between.

"The Voice" may seem like a book that your high school English teacher would have forced you to buy, but now in your mature age, you can appreciate it for its amazing provision of such legendary poetry with new age artistry.

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