B.’s Reviews > The Best American Poetry 2003 > Status Update

I am flying through this one. So many good poems, a few great ones. Overall, most of the poems in this edition at least are interesting enough, work from a form to content standpoint, and make sense without needing to read an obscure footnote in an academic journal about Ancient Roman fabrics.

Already a massive improvement over BAP 2003. Komunyakaa expresses many of the same concerns/thoughts that I have about today's poetry. I think that this quote from his introduction sums it up nicely: "[...] any experimentation not in service of meaning is anti-poetry." This can be argued of course, but I have thought about this, or at least in shades, throughout my mission to read the entire BAP series this year.