Poets Choice

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151013562
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poet's Choice written by Edward Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780880015660
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poet's Choice written by Robert Hass and published by Ecco. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780226900285
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sarah's Choice written by Eleanor Wilner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780174441120
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Choice of Poets written by R. P. Hewett and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1985-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marilyn Hacker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393351114
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons written by Marilyn Hacker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995-03-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first acquaintance to the experience of their parting.

Author : Willard Spiegelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190291834
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Poets See the World written by Willard Spiegelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for? Is description an end in itself, or a means of expressing desire? Ezra Pound demanded that a poem should represent the external world as objectively and directly as possible, and William Butler Yeats, in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936), said that he and his generation were rebelling against, inter alia, "irrelevant descriptions of nature" in the work of their predecessors. The poets in this book, however, who are distinct in many ways from one another, all observe the external world of nature or the reflected world of art, and make relevant poems out of their observations. This study deals with the crisp, elegant work of Charles Tomlinson, the swirling baroque poetry of Amy Clampitt, the metaphysical meditations of Charles Wright from a position in his backyard, the weather reports and landscapes of John Ashbery, and the "new way of looking" that Jorie Graham proposes to explore in her increasingly fragmented poems. All of these poets, plus others (Gary Snyder, Theodore Weiss, Irving Feldman, Richard Howard) who are dealt with more briefly, attend to what Wallace Stevens, in a memorable phrase, calls "the way things look each day." The ordinariness of daily reality is the beginning of the poets' own idiosyncratic, indeed unique, visions and styles.

Author : Joseph Langland
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780809437153
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poet's Choice written by Joseph Langland and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1962-01-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Macnaghten Parsons
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393045154
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry for Pleasure written by Ian Macnaghten Parsons and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1978 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry for Pleasure is an anthology representative of the great wealth of English poetry written between the sixteenth century and the present day. The book is arranged in fifteen sections, each devoted to a different theme. The first two of these comprise verse written mainly for, or about, the young or the very young. Subsequent sections deal with such varied subjects as country pleasures, love and friendship, music and dancing, the sea, time, age, sleep, and death. In fact they cover almost the whole range of human experience. Inevitably, a number of poems will be familiar to most readers, but some will be new to many.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Walker
ISBN 13 : 9781406327113
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here's a Little Poem written by Jane Yolen and published by Walker. This book was released on 2010 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated first book of poetry, 'Here's a Little Poem' contains over 60 verses from noted English and American authors, including Wendy Cope, Roger McGough, John Agard and Grace Nichols.

Author : Paul Engle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poet's Choice written by Paul Engle and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: