| New Letters to a Young Poet Contributor(s): Margarit, Joan (Author), Maurer, Christopher (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0974888192 ISBN-13: 9780974888194 Publisher: Swan Isle Press OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| LCCN: 2010042781 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.48 lbs) 120 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these intimate pages, award-winning Catalan poet Joan Margarit offers a passionate defense of poetry and of the intelligible poem--the well-made text that can provide refuge, wisdom, and consolation. Inspired by Rilke's classic Letters to a Young Poet, this slender volume explores poetry as vocation, obsession, and partnership between writer and reader, a road toward inner growth. For Margarit, poetry promises a clarity that allows us mysteriously to live without the need to forget. This is essential reading for poets young and old, writers, and readers seeking insights into the creative process and the way both poet and reader can find their own way to face solitude. |