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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. 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."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Maggie Dietz is the Favorite Poem Project's director. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
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.
Americans' Favorite Poems (1999), the first anthology to evolve from former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's inspired and fruitful Favorite Poem Project, is currently in its eighth printing. Galvanized by its success, Pinksy and his coeditor, Maggie Dietz, have created a second anthology, a graceful, sometimes jubilant, sometimes lyrical, sometimes brooding, but always welcoming and stirring collection. The poems are arranged in loosely defined thematic categories covering various stages and preoccupations of life, from childhood to love and death, and different paths to reconciling loss, finding faith, and loving nature and life itself. Many works do carry headnotes from readers explaining the reasons for their selections, but the focus is on the poetry rather than on their reasons for loving their favorites. The editors also participate, often presenting their favorites without comment. The range is exhilarating--encompassing works in translation, and reaching as far back as Horace. Pinksy and Dietz's widely cast net also gathers poems by Lucille Clifton, C. P. Cavafy, Louise Gluck, Theodore Roethke, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, and Denise Levertov. Donna Seaman
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2002
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- ISBN 13 9780393010749
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