| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxv, 352 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Robert Pinsky -- There was a child went forth: My father / Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) -- Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Game / Eavan Boland (B. 1944) -- Dreamtigers / Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) -- To my dear children / Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) -- Boy breaking glass / Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) -- Frost at midnight / Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- My grandmother's love letters / Hart Crane (1899-1932) -- Story for Margarita / Ruben Dario (1867-1916) -- Coastal / Mark Doty (B. 1953) -- Little brown baby / Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Once by the Pacific -- Time / Louise Gluck (B. 1943) -- At the railway station, Upway; Self-unseeing / Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Follower; Blackberry-picking / Seamus Heaney (B. 1939) -- Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) -- Ode 1.9 / To Thaliarchus / Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) -- Dreams / Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Flower given to my daughter / James Joyce (1882-1941) -- You were wearing / Kenneth Koch (B. 1925) -- Venus's-flytraps / Yusef Komunyakaa (B. 1947) -- Catch / Stanley Kunitz (B. 1905) -- Piano / D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) -- My childhood-home I see again / Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Silence / Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- August, Los Angeles, Lullaby / Carol Muske (B. 1945) -- Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- Autobiographia literaria / Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) -- Alicante lullaby / Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) -- Lice seekers / Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) -- Child on top of a greenhouse / Theodore Roethke (1908-1963) -- Land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) -- There was a child went forth; On the beach at night / Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Turtle / William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Night light / Ann Winters (B. 1939) -- Song of wandering Aengus / William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Either whom to love or how: Just walking around / John Ashbery (B. 1927) -- To my mother / George Barker (1913-1991) -- Bouquet / Bei Dao (B. 1949) -- Shampoo / Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand (sonnets from the Portuguese 6) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) -- Now winter nights enlarge / Thomas Campion (1567-1620) -- Bandaged shoulder / C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) -- |
| Summary |
An anthology for new readers and poetry fans discusses the pleasures of reading poems and includes some two hundred works by top contributors, providing accompanying commentary by readers of various ages, regions, and backgrounds. 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 Gluck, to name a few. The editors offer their own comments on some of the poems, which are arranged in thematic chapters. |
| Subject |
Poetry -- Translations into English.
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English poetry.
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Pinsky, Robert.
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Dietz, Maggie.
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| ISBN |
0393010740 |
| Standard No. |
9780393010749 |
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