| Poet's Choice Contributor(s): Hirsch, Edward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156032678 ISBN-13: 9780156032674 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 808.81 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (1.10 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hirsch, Edward: - EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published nine books of poems and five books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including 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. |