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Alice Quinn, one of the country's most prominent poetry editor, received backlash from Helen Vendler for editing and publishing ''Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments,'' by Elizabeth Bishop because bringing it out now, more than 25 years after her death, is unfair to her legacy. But Quinn said she wasn't entirely surprised by the reaction to the book. She said the book helped readers understand Bishop and her creative process. Helen Vendler takes on Alice Quinn of The New Yorker, arguably the country's most prominent poetry editor, for editing ''Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments,'' by Elizabeth Bishop. Quinn's work as ''the devoted editing this material needed and deserved.'' Quinn, in an e-mail message, said she wasn't entirely surprised by the reaction to the book that she had known that this perspective on it would be registered and probably more than once. Quinn to edit the book, said he had originally opposed suggestions that the unpublished works be brought to light. Alice is a very important person in the literary world. But she also points out that the material is all ''work that for one reason or another she chose not to publish but did not destroy.'' Frank Bidart, a poet.