| Homage to Robert Frost Contributor(s): Brodsky, Joseph (Author), Heaney, Seamus (Author), Walcott, Derek (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374525242 ISBN-13: 9780374525248 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1997 Annotation: Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott--three Nobel laureates and threeof our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologiesthat surround one of America's most famous and beloved deceased poets--RobertFrost. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.08" W x 8.24" (0.32 lbs) 128 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Three of our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost. |
Contributor Bio(s): Brodsky, Joseph: - Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992.Walcott, Derek: - Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in St. Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930. His Collected Poems: 1948-1984 was published in 1986, and his subsequent works include a book-length poem, Omeros (1990); a collection of verse, The Bounty (1997); and, in an edition illustrated with his own paintings, the long poem Tiepolo's Hound (2000). His numerous plays include The Haitian Trilogy (2001) and Walker and The Ghost Dance (2002). Walcott received the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. |