Her books include, as editor, the excellent anthology "Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression".
Published this week was "The Lowbrow Reader Reader," an excellent anthology of a 10-year-old comedy zine, and essays by the comedian Dave Hill called "Tasteful Nudes:.
The poet Kevin Young has edited an excellent anthology of modern poems on grief, "The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing".
Lopate's "excellent anthology" includes "writers who love crowds and writers who hang out alone and brood," Garrison Keillor wrote here in 1998.
Still with new voices, Dear World & Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK edited by Nathan Hamilton (Bloodaxe) is an excellent anthology of work by 60 young poets, some already very familiar names, some less so.
The excellent anthology No Man's Land – Writings from a World at War, edited by Pete Ayrton, showcases powerful writing by several of Brittain's female contemporaries similarly engaged in bloody mopping-up.
There is even an excellent anthology, The Vintage Book of Amnesia (2000), edited by the novelist Jonathan Lethem, which collects examples both of what one might call amnesia fiction – say, Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman – and amnesia in fiction, such as Borges's "Funes, His Memory".
For Lear, the author of "Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature" (1997) and the editor of an excellent anthology, "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson" (1998), Carson's familial obligations in particular, the children are nothing but burdens that "deprived her of privacy and drained her physical and emotional energy".
For example, Tokarczyk and Fay have an excellent anthology on working class women in the academy (1993) in which various contributors discuss the ambiguous positions in which they find themselves by coming from poor family backgrounds and becoming academics.
