But rather than spell out what he calls "the confrontational forms this 'European' writing assumed," Mr. Hemon prefers to let the 40 stories that make up this anthology make their own argument indirectly.
Kors: This anthology made me laugh when it captured culture differences that rang true to me, like Richard Rodriguez, who writes about how his parents struggled to pronounce vowels with the American inflection.
Osnos, the publisher of "The Best of I. F. Stone," worked for Stone as an assistant in the 1960's and boasts of this in his introduction; and Weber, a freelance writer who edited the anthology, makes plain that he, too, stands solidly in Stone's corner.
But the summer of 1965 wasn't so obvious a turning point within the movement at the time as it now appears to have been, and the anthology makes it clear why not.
The pages of the "Anthology" make cases for nominations for Clowes, Green, Adrian Tomine and Kim Deitch, to start: Clowes for irony so complex that it seems the very bio-system of his comic-book world; Green for his nightmare humor — nuns administer shock treatments through cross-topped metal helmets!
As this marvel of an anthology makes manifest, Talese transformed sportswriting into literature that is both serious and delightful.
As Keegan points out in his preface, his method of structuring an anthology makes quite a difference to how we view the poems.
The anthology makes it clear that such pointed poetry is being written and performed here and now: "rap has lead a renaissance of the word, driving a return to poetry in public life," write the editors in the introduction.
Later, Chowder talks about how his love for a poem often boils down to a single word, and imagines an anthology made up entirely of those single words that tip poems into transcendence.
The anthology made it possible to link the fractured stanzas of Celan ("no one / bears witness for the / witness") to the lyrics of Mahmoud Darwish, another poet of traces and inscriptions, whose verse establishes a counter-history of Palestine.
