First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems that Capitivated and Inspired ThemCarmela Ciuraru Scribner, 2000 - 268 sider 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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... rhymes and half rhymes and repeat- ing cadences , I began to hear something different — the sound , at last , of a place where I might no longer be an impostor . A place that could be made exact in language and therefore hospitable to ...
... rhymes and half rhymes and repeat- ing cadences , I began to hear something different — the sound , at last , of a place where I might no longer be an impostor . A place that could be made exact in language and therefore hospitable to ...
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... rhyme , here and there indirectly , in the abab pat- tern ? What poem did I know outside the hymnal's " Amazing Grace ... rhymes at all . I can still recite too many of them , even those I detested at age eight - perhaps for trying to ...
... rhyme , here and there indirectly , in the abab pat- tern ? What poem did I know outside the hymnal's " Amazing Grace ... rhymes at all . I can still recite too many of them , even those I detested at age eight - perhaps for trying to ...
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... rhymes and Robert Louis Stevenson . At school , the laughable ( to us ) Evangeline and her “ breath of kine , ” Hiawatha ( Minnehaha ! Laughing Water ! ) , and Poe's stuck - needle lines , his " tintinabulation of the bells , bells ...
... rhymes and Robert Louis Stevenson . At school , the laughable ( to us ) Evangeline and her “ breath of kine , ” Hiawatha ( Minnehaha ! Laughing Water ! ) , and Poe's stuck - needle lines , his " tintinabulation of the bells , bells ...
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Sophie Cabot Black on 754 My Life had stood | 44 |
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