Description: ''The editors ... hope to 'surprise and confirm' our sense of Illinois poetry, and they succeed admirably... The anthology is not boosterism but includes the ambivalence about Illinois that has long characterized its literature.'' -- Lisa Woolley, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society ADVANCE PRAISE ''This is a very exciting anthology. The editors have done an impressive job of gathering splendid individual poems as well as fully representing the schools, modes, and tastes of Illinois poetry. Illinois Voices establishes a large sense of cultural history and poetic evolution, presenting not only poetry from Illinois but a microcosm of twentieth-century American poetry.'' -- David Baker, author of Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry

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