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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... nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads , than one Who sought the thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all ...
... nature led : more like a man Flying from something that he dreads , than one Who sought the thing he loved . For nature then ( The coarser pleasures of my boyish days , And their glad animal movements all gone by ) To me was all in all ...
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... nature , not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth , but hearing oftentimes The still , sad music of humanity , Not harsh nor grating , though of ample power To chasten and subdue . And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy ...
... nature , not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth , but hearing oftentimes The still , sad music of humanity , Not harsh nor grating , though of ample power To chasten and subdue . And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy ...
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... Nature has yielded a meaning ( Nature's “ various lan- guage " ) . There is no poet in this poem , also no god . The speaker is made strong by his love and the communion it affords more like an instructive conversation than a mystery ...
... Nature has yielded a meaning ( Nature's “ various lan- guage " ) . There is no poet in this poem , also no god . The speaker is made strong by his love and the communion it affords more like an instructive conversation than a mystery ...
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