September 16, 2011
Publishers Weekly
Shaking Up the Canon: PW Talks with Rita Dove
By Craig Morgan Teicher
Q. You were tasked with offering your own version of the 20th Century canon—how did you go about it?
A. By the time I began working on the anthology, the 20th century was done. It was a closed chapter, and that meant I could go back and see how things really begin to shake out. I was going back to look at all the ways people viewed the 20th century at various points—in 1960 the view was completely different from how we view it now ...
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