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To mark this thirty-five-year-old tradition as the century and millennium turn, and to offer a sampling of its richness, The Yellow Shoe Poets, a retrospective anthology, was compiled under the editorship of George Garrett, a longtime colleague of the Press and the author of eight poetry volumes. (Say \"\"the LSU poets\"\" real fast with a southern drawl and you get the ridiculously wonderful moniker that poet Elizabeth Seydel Morgan's young friend innocently mistook for this noble band. It's an image Brendan Galvin has appropriated to a perfect fit in his poem Yellow Shoe Poet, written on behalf of his fellow \"\"yellow shoes\"\" across the years.)  All 173 poems are taken from LSU Press books and were selected by the poets themselves, if living. Arranged alphabetically by author, they consist of at least one poem from every poet published by the Press. 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Eschewing literacy \"stars,\" who too frequently eclipse lesser-known but often more talented artists, he explores such under-appreciated writers as Mary Johnston, Madison Smartt Bell and Reynolds Price. He champions writers who tackle subjects that will never make them popular. Of Shelby Foote's \"The Civil War\" he writes, \"even assuming the good fortune of his living to complete his marathan enterprise and doing it tolerably well, the odds were strong, if not overwhelming, that in a time of instant attention and instant oblivion, he would find himself and his work cheerfully forgotten\". Garrett writes of the Elizabethans, \"their words are not only their greatest gift to us, but they are also the only true map we have to lead us to their world and safely back to our own\". In \"My Silk Purse and Yours\" Garrett's explorations of American literary art always lead him back to his starting point. 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