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April 5, 2000

 

WASHINGTON, APR 4 (AP) - Americans favor "The Road Not Taken."

 

Two years ago, poet laureate Robert Pinsky launched a campaign to discover America's favorite poem. He received nearly 18,000 written, videotaped and recorded suggestions, and has found the most popular one - Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken."

 

It's the one that ends:

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -

"I took the one less traveled by,

"And that has made all the difference."

 

Pinsky presented some of the results from his project Monday to the Library of Congress for its archives: 100 video and audio recordings of Americans from all walks of life reading their

favorite verses.

 

More selections and comments from those who chose them appear in a book "Americans' Favorite Poems," edited by Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.

 

Pinsky, whose term as poet laureate ends in May, said in an interview that W. W. Norton, the publisher, has recently ordered a fourth printing - 10,000 copies. A Norton publicist declined to give total sales since it was published in November but said it was "doing extraordinarily well," especially for a book of poetry.

  

 


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