Poems to Read: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393010749)

Poems to Read is a welcoming avenue into poetry for readers new to poetry, including high school and college students. It is also meant to be a fresh, valuable collection for readers already devoted to the art. This anthology concentrates on the actual pleasures of reading poems: hearing the poem in your voice, bringing it to other people, musing about it, taking excitement or comfort from it, wandering with it or--as in the Keats letter quoted in the Introduction--having it as a starting post. Many of these 200 poems are accompanied by comments from readers of various ages, regions, and backgrounds who participated in the Favorite Poem Project. Included are poems by John Donne, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Seamus Heaney, Allen Ginsberg, and Louise Gl?k, to name a few. The editors offer their own comments on some of the poems, which are arranged in thematic chapters.

Author: Maggie Dietz
ISBN-10: 0393010740
ISBN-13: 9780393010749
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2002
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.26d

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 02/25/2002 pg. 59
Booklist 06/01/2002 pg. 1670
Library Journal 07/01/2002 pg. 85
Publishers Weekly 02/25/2002
Library Journal 07/15/2002