A Boxful of Poetry
Three Contemporary Anthologies with Four Illustrated Poem Cards; How to Love the World, The Path to Kindness, and the Wonder of Small Things
Published on 5. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-1-63586-863-0 (ISBN)
Description
James Crews's three anthologies of contemporary poems celebrating hope, wonder, kindness, and connection packaged in a beautiful gift box set with the addition of four illustrated poem cards suitable for framing.
These are the poems our world needs now. Together, the three books include over 300 poems by a diverse selection of leading and emerging contemporary poets, including Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Ada Limon, Jane Hirshfield, Tracy K. Smith, Julia Alvarez, Ellen Bass, Danusha Lameris, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Joseph Bruchac, Nikita Gill, Linda Hogan, Mark Nepo, Alberto Rios, and others. Special bonus feature: four frameable prints of poems by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Kimberly Blaeser, Paula Gordon Lepp, and a new poem by James Crews.
These are the poems our world needs now. Together, the three books include over 300 poems by a diverse selection of leading and emerging contemporary poets, including Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Ada Limon, Jane Hirshfield, Tracy K. Smith, Julia Alvarez, Ellen Bass, Danusha Lameris, Li-Young Lee, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Joseph Bruchac, Nikita Gill, Linda Hogan, Mark Nepo, Alberto Rios, and others. Special bonus feature: four frameable prints of poems by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Kimberly Blaeser, Paula Gordon Lepp, and a new poem by James Crews.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 134 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
822 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63586-863-0 (9781635868630)
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James Crews is the editor of several bestselling poetry anthologies, including The Wonder of Small Things, The Path to Kindness, and How to Love the World, which has over 100,000 copies in print, Healing the Divide, and is the author of is the author of the essay collection, Kindness Will Save the World. He has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, and in People Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and other journals. Crews lives with his husband in the woods of Southern Vermont. jamescrews.net