7 GREAT POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
Modern European Poetry - edited by Willis Barnstone - This is the first collection of modern European poets that I read in the 1960’s - encountering many for the first time - Rilke, Francis Ponge, Cesar Vallejo, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gottfried Benn, Odysseus Elytis, Anna Akhmatova and so many others. It opened my eyes to a new world!
Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart - A Poetry Anthology - edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade.
Roots and Wings: Poetry from Spain 1900-1975 - edited by Hardie St. Martin. - This is the most astonishing collection of incredible poets I have read in the last 25 years. Buy it and savor it!
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times - edited by Neil Astley
Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania - edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg
The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry - edited by Stephen Mitchell - another great bringing together of Rumi, Kabir, Miribai, Hildegard of Bingen, Lao-tzu and so many others.
This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from around the World - selected by Naomi Shihab Nye