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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... sense that there was no point to speech if speech did not precisely articulate perception . To my mother , speech was the socially acceptable form of murmur : its function was to fill a room with ongoing , consoling human sound . And to ...
... sense that there was no point to speech if speech did not precisely articulate perception . To my mother , speech was the socially acceptable form of murmur : its function was to fill a room with ongoing , consoling human sound . And to ...
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... sense to us , the rest all lilt and ritual , a sort of perfumed , swooning sense of community . But I was thirteen or fourteen , I think , and at a boarding school run by Cistercian monks in the middle of Ireland , before actual poems ...
... sense to us , the rest all lilt and ritual , a sort of perfumed , swooning sense of community . But I was thirteen or fourteen , I think , and at a boarding school run by Cistercian monks in the middle of Ireland , before actual poems ...
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... sense of its having been delivered into the language directly out of the language , with no authorial intervention . The sense of the world awakening to another little bit of itself . Delicious , surprised by joy , even as the small ...
... sense of its having been delivered into the language directly out of the language , with no authorial intervention . The sense of the world awakening to another little bit of itself . Delicious , surprised by joy , even as the small ...
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