| Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology Contributor(s): Dietz, Maggie (Editor), Pinsky, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393010740 ISBN-13: 9780393010749 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2002 Annotation: A unique anthology by the editors of the bestseller "Americans' Favorite Poems. Poems to Read" is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 808.81 |
| LCCN: 2002000321 |
| Physical Information: 1.26" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.51 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poems to Read is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art. This anthology concentrates on the actual pleasures of reading poems: hearing the poem in your voice, bringing it to other people, musing about it, taking excitement or comfort from it, wandering with it or--as in the Keats letter quoted in the Introduction--having it as a starting post. Many of these 200 poems are accompanied by comments from readers of various ages, regions, and backgrounds who participated in the Favorite Poem Project. Included are poems by John Donne, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Louise Glück, to name a few. The editors offer their own comments on some of the poems, which are arranged in thematic chapters. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dietz, Maggie: - Maggie Dietz is the Favorite Poem Project's director. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.Pinsky, Robert: - Robert Pinsky is the author of ten collections of poetry including, most recently, At the Foundling Hospital. His translation The Inferno of Dante won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. His brief guide The Sounds of Poetry is used in acting classes. As a three-term United States Poet Laureate, Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, in which thousands of Americans shared their favorite poems. That project gave rise to three previous anthologies, Americans' Favorite Poems, An Invitation to Poetry, and Singing School. Pinsky lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches at Boston University. |