| Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing Contributor(s): Koch, Kenneth (Author), Farrell, Kate (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394743644 ISBN-13: 9780394743646 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: February 1982 Annotation: Selections from the work of twenty-three modern poets, from Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Gary Snyder and Leroi Jones, including translations of poems by five European poets. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| LCCN: 80005278 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.43" W x 7.26" (0.57 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is specifically for high school students, though it is useful to college students and anyone interested in the art and craft of poetry. Koch and Farrell, experienced teachers as well as poets, write about poetry in such a way that students will find it accessible and interesting. The book includes selections of poetry by twenty-three poets, among them Dickinson, Hopkins, Pound, Williams and Eliot, as well as Ginsberg, O'Hara, Baraka and Ashbery. There is also the translated work of such modern European poets such as Lorca, Rilke, Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Mayakowsky. |