Poet's Choice

Zusatztext PRAISE FOR HOW TO READ A POEM "In short! reading Hirsch's How to Read a Poem is like a very long evening with a learned and perceptive friend who keeps leaping to his bookshelf for more and better illustrations! and finding ever more connections and revelations."-NEWSDAY "A lovely book! full of joy and wisdom."-THE BALTIMORE SUN Informationen zum Autor EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow! he has published ten books of poems and six books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships! including the National Book Critics Circle Award! a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship! the Rome Prize! a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor! and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn. Edward Hirsch began writing a column in the "Washington Post Book World" called "Poet's Choice" in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns to present a minicourse in world poetry. More than 130 poets from ancient times to the present represent cultures from all around the globe. Zusammenfassung Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet's Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns! some of which have been revised and expanded! to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet's Choice includes the work of more than one hundred poets from ancient times to the present-among them Sappho! W. B. Yeats! Czeslaw Milosz! Primo Levi! Robert Frost! Pablo Neruda! Amy Lowell! Mark Strand! and many more-and shares them with all of Hirsch's inimitable enthusiasm and joy. Rich! relevant! and inviting! the book offers us the fruits of a life lived in poetry. ...

Product details

• Authors: Edward Hirsch
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2007
• EAN: 9780156032674
• ISBN: 978-0-15-603267-4
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry anthologies (various poets), Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Ancient & Classical