First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems that Capitivated and Inspired ThemCarmela Ciuraru Scribner, 2000 - 268 من الصفحات When Carmela Ciuraru asked her favorite poets to write about the poems that first inspired them, she was astonished by the illuminating responses she received. In turn, readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in First Loves.Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Sherman Alexie writes about recognizing the constant threat of violence on his reservation when he read Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz". It was a poem by her father that taught Virginia Hamilton Adair about the joys of poetry and the hidden life of her parent. J. D. McClatchy tells of first reading Homer by candlelight while eating a bowl of applesauce. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.Just in time for National Poetry Month, First Loves is a testament to poetry's matchless abilityto restore faith, offer salvation and solidarity, and above all, alter the course of human life. |
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... ( University of Michigan , 1997 ) . BARBARA GUEST was born in North Carolina in 1920. She is the author of several ... University , the New School for Social Research , and Princeton University . He is editorial director of The Ecco Press ...
... ( University of Michigan , 1997 ) . BARBARA GUEST was born in North Carolina in 1920. She is the author of several ... University , the New School for Social Research , and Princeton University . He is editorial director of The Ecco Press ...
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... University . ERIC PANKEY'S books of poetry include Apocryphya , Heartwood , The Late Romances , and most recently , Cenotaph . He teaches in the En- glish Department at George Mason University in Fairfax , Virginia . ROBERT PINSKY was ...
... University . ERIC PANKEY'S books of poetry include Apocryphya , Heartwood , The Late Romances , and most recently , Cenotaph . He teaches in the En- glish Department at George Mason University in Fairfax , Virginia . ROBERT PINSKY was ...
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... University of Chicago . JAMES TATE was born in Kansas City , Missouri , in 1943. His books of poetry include The Lost Pilot ( 1967 ) , selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets , Absences ( 1972 ) , Selected Poems ( 1991 ) , which ...
... University of Chicago . JAMES TATE was born in Kansas City , Missouri , in 1943. His books of poetry include The Lost Pilot ( 1967 ) , selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets , Absences ( 1972 ) , Selected Poems ( 1991 ) , which ...
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