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Author |
: Edward Hirsch |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 015101356X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780151013562 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Poet's Choice by : Edward Hirsch
A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.
Author |
: Robert Hass |
Publisher |
: Ecco |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 1998-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0880015667 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780880015660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poet's Choice by : Robert Hass
When Robert Haas first took his post as U.S. Poet Laureate, he asked himself, "What can a poet laureate usefully do?" One of his answers was to bring back the popular nineteenth-century tradition of including poetry in our daily newspapers. "Poet's Choice," a nationally syndicated column appearing in twenty-five papers, has introduced a poem a week to readers across the country. "There is news in poems," argues Robert Haas. This collection gathers the full two years' worth of Hass's choices, including recently published poems as well as older classics. The selections reflect the events of the day, whether it be an elder poet recieving a major prize, a younger poet publishing a first book, the death of a great writer, or the changing seasons and holidays. They also reflect Hass's personal taste. Here is "one of the most gorgeous poems in the English language" ("To Autumn" by John Keats): a harrowing Holocaust poem ("Deathfugue" by Paul Celan); and "my favorite American poem of spring" ("Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams). With a brief introduction to each poet and poem, a note on the selection, and insights on how the poem works, Robert Hass acts as your personal guide to the poetry shelves at your local bookstores and to some of the best poetry of all time.
Author |
: Eleanor Wilner |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226900282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226900285 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sarah's Choice by : Eleanor Wilner
In this, her third collection of poems, Eleanor Wilner revises a number of our culture's central myths; invoking figures as diverse as Briar Rose and Miriam the Prophet, she casts upon their stories, and choices, an enlivening feminist perspective. "There is so much that is impressive in Wilner's mature poems. In an era which has been labelled 'The End of History,' she examines history's less obvious lessons. If the past is to teach us, she seems to say, then we must re-invent and re-shape it."—Poetry
Author |
: R. P. Hewett |
Publisher |
: Nelson Thornes |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 1985-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0174441126 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780174441120 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Choice of Poets by : R. P. Hewett
Author |
: Annie Finch |
Publisher |
: Haymarket Books |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2020-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781642592009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1642592005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Choice Words by : Annie Finch
A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sole authorship of their abortion experiences. These essays, poems, and prose are a testament to the profound political power of defying shame. Contributors include Ai, Amy Tan, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Camonghne Felix, Carol Muske-Dukes, Diane di Prima, Dorothy Parker, Gloria Naylor, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Arcana, Kathy Acker, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lindy West, Lucille Clifton, Mahogany L. Browne, Margaret Atwood, Molly Peacock, Ntozake Shange, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sharon Doubiago, Sharon Olds, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sholeh Wolpe, Ursula Le Guin, and Vi Khi Nao.
Author |
: Mr. John Lithgow |
Publisher |
: Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2007-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780446501996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0446501999 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Poets' Corner by : Mr. John Lithgow
From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to appeal to readers new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dylan Thomas are just a few names among Lithgow's comprehensive list of poetry masters. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud." This unique package provides a multimedia poetry experience with a bonus MP3 CD of revelatory poetry readings by John and the familiar voices of such notable performers as Eileen Atkins, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Billy Connolly, Jodie Foster, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Lynn Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Gary Sinise, and Sam Waterston. Every reader will enjoy reciting or listening to these poems with the entire family, appreciating how each one comes to life through the spoken word in this superlative poetry collection.
Author |
: Adélia Prado |
Publisher |
: Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages |
: 82 |
Release |
: 1990-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780819511775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819511773 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Alphabet in the Park by : Adélia Prado
Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women. This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the imaginative life. Prado also writes about ordinary matters; she insists that the human experience is both mystical and carnal. To Prado these are not contradictory: "It's the soul that's erotic," she writes. As Ellen Watson says in her introduction, "Adélia Prados poetry is a poetry of abundance. These poems overflow with the humble, grand, various stuff of daily life – necklaces, bicycles, fish; saints and prostitutes and presidents; innumerable chickens and musical instruments…And, seemingly at every turn, there is food." But also, an abundance of dark things, cancer, death, greed. These are poems of appetite, all kinds.
Author |
: Various |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1962-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780451627919 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0451627911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mentor Book of Major American Poets by : Various
The voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry. Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of: • Wallace Stevens • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Carlos Williams • Henry Wadsworth • Ezra Pound • Walt Whitman • Edgar Allen Poe • Emily Dickinson • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Stephen Crane • e. e. cummings • Robert Frost • Hart Crane • W. H. Auden • And more...
Author |
: Peter Washington |
Publisher |
: Everyman's Library |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1841597805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781841597805 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russian Poets by : Peter Washington
Ever since Pushkin, Russian poets have been famous for their ability to combine private and public experience in lyric poetry of a comprehensiveness and intensity unmatched elsewhere. Ranging in extremes from the melting tenderness of unrequited love to the bitter comedy of political chaos, this collection of poems covering two centuries includes work by Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Annensky,Mayakovsky, Bely, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Brodsky and others less celebrated but no less extraordinary. The text is divided into six sections. Russian poets constantly reflect on their art, so the first section is appropriately entitled 'The Muse'. Their other great topic is Russia herself, explored in parts two and three. Part four presents the inner world, parts five and six traditional themes of love and mortality. Poetry has often been a matter of life and death in Russia, where Mandelstam was not the only poet to perish in the Gulag. The comfortable private domain familiar to many English and American writers barely exists in a country where political realities are exigent - one reason for the fierce intensity found in so many of these poems.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 994 |
Release |
: 1880 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015084572190 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Catalogue by :
American national trade bibliography.