First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them

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Carmela Ciuraru
Simon and Schuster, 2001 - 268 من الصفحات
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. 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.

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Acknowledgments
11
Introduction by Carmela Ciuraru
19
Virginia Hamilton Adair on Along the Road by Robert
27
Sherman Alexie on My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke
33
Sophie Cabot Black on 754 My Life had stood
44
Eavan Boland on The Wild Swans at Coole by William
51
Wanda Coleman on Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
58
Robert Creeley on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
66
Yusef Komunyakaa on Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
140
Ursula K Le Guin on Itylus by Algernon Charles
148
Philip Levine on Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
156
Elizabeth Macklin on If I Could Tell You by W H Auden
161
Heather McHugh on The Second Coming by William
170
Jane Miller on Song of Amargos Mother by Federico
176
Lisel Mueller on Limited by Carl Sandburg
183
Eric Pankey on Junk by Richard Wilbur
193

Toi Derricotte on Southern Road by Sterling Brown
72
Carolyn Forche on Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
79
Louise Gluck on The Little Black Boy by William Blake
86
Allen Grossman on Thanatopsis by William Cullen
95
Donald Hall on Heat by H D
101
Seamus Heaney on the Dactyls of Derry
107
Edward Hirsch on The Night Is Darkening Round
114
bell hooks on I Want to Die While You Love Me by Georgia
125
Brigit Pegeen Kelly on Prologue Act TV Henry V
132
Marie Ponsot on Helen by H D
199
Claudia Rankine on The Black Riders by Cesar Vallejo
209
Frederick Seidel on Canto LXXXI by Ezra Pound
218
Snodgrass on The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney
225
Elizabeth Spires on 449 I died for Beautybut
228
K Williams on The Eighth Elegy by Rainer Maria
242
Permissions
263
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Carmela Ciuraru is a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, she lives in New York City.

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