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I say “American idea of managing,” though it may very well be universal.

The dreams are more modest in places Woody Allen hasn’t documented. The local celebrity from my hometown in Tennessee was Strolling Jim. Too many friends founding magazines, opening music venues, writing novels. There are too many Nobel Peace Prize winners and movie stars looking at Picassos with you at the Guggenheim. If nothing else, the selections seem like a good barometer of what’s on our minds.Īs a New York City resident, it’s easy to forget this very American idea of managing, of (as my mom always says) “doing the best you can.” Akin to “be all you can be” minus the expectations of heroism. All poems contained in these collections (totaling 1,031 pages) and on the website were chosen by U. Therefore I’m delighted that Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project is still available online, even if sparse compared to the three anthologies it has spawned: Poems to Read, America’s Favorite Poems, and An Invitation to Poetry.

If I can’t curl up with it, I don’t want it. Reading at the kitchen table feels like homework, which is why I dislike the collected works of anyone who lived past thirty-five.