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He is the author of The Daddy Shift, which the San Francisco Chronicle calls "amazing" and the New York Times praises as "a chronicle of a time that he predicts we will look back upon as the start of permanent change". He also co-edited the collection Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood, as well as two Greater Good anthologies, Are We Born Racist? and The Compassionate Instinct.
Also, the movement in art comics in the mid-1990s, good anthologies, few active collectives and healthy competition between them has had an impact.
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Buy the Greater Good anthology, Are We Born Racist?
Here are 10 that could feature in any good anthology".
And apparently the good anthology is the one that wears its contradictions proudly.
So how can it be made to seem more companionable?One way is to survey the terrain from a considerable height by dipping into a good anthology.
It would be a good anthology, though one whose selections seem terribly safe, and would provide the basis of a good course for beginning students.
But it's a sign of a good anthology when you start bitching about Who Isn't in It not a bad title for a book by Bogdanovich, come to think of it).
As Auden states in The Poet's Tongue: "We do not want to read 'great' poetry all the time, and a good anthology should contain poems for every mood".
I guess the short answer to this is -- I'd want to see the next 15 issues to be compelling enough so that they'd make a good anthology.
Or maybe Data". Dear World attempts to disarm the reader by being so artlessly unlike other recent round-ups of younger poets: "This is as good an anthology of good poetry being written by as varied a group of poets and poetries as The Editor could have compiled currently and in the given time and for the money paid". Anything phoney is dismissed as "Spam".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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