Index of American Periodical Verse 1981 - Tapa dura

...an important research tool...provides the best coverage. * Reference Quarterly * ...a concise overview of places where poetry is found today. A valuable research tool... * Library Journal * It should be in every college library and most public libraries in the country-for every person who just likes poetry, every scholar, and every critic will find it invaluable as a guide to and as a tool in the study of the American poetry of the 1970's. * Concerning Poetry * They have done a splendid job, and one that will be appreciated by all poetry lovers. * American Society of Indexers * An especially appropriate acquisition for academic and large public libraries, it would be valuable in any library where there is an emphasis on twentieth-century American poetry. * Booklist * ...every mid-sized to large academic and public library should look upon it as an essential purchase. * American Reference Books Annual * ...an invaluable resource for academic and public libraries. * American Reference Books Annual * Because this index is an important resource for contemporary American poetry and serves as a continuing record of trends in the output of famous as well as lesser-known poets and the cultural influence they represent, it deserves a place in all large literature collections. * American Reference Books Annual *

The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.