An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393058765)

For a reader unaccustomed to reading poetry, or who has fallen away from the custom, this collection offers an inviting way into the art, or back into it. For readers devoted to poetry, it offers illuminating examples of the infinitely various ways a poem reaches a reader.

In both the book and the videos on the accompanying DVD, poems by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, and Dickinson as well as contemporary poets are introduced by people from across the United States--a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glassblower, a marine--each of whom speaks about his or her connection to the poem. Their comments are variously poignant, funny, heartening, tart, penetrating, and eccentric, showing some of the ways poetry is alive for American readers. An Invitation to Poetry will inspire a fresh experience of poetry's pleasure and insight.

Author: Maggie Dietz
ISBN-10: 039305876X
ISBN-13: 9780393058765
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2004
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.64h x 6.48w x 1.12d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2004 pg. 74
Library Journal 08/01/2004 pg. 86
Library Journal 04/01/2004