
How To Read A Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
And Fall in Love with Poetry
Edward Hirsch(Author)
Roundhouse Publishing Ltd
Published on 1. April 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-15-600566-1 (ISBN)
Description
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: Fourth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 14 years
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-15-600566-1 (9780156005661)
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03/1999
Mariner Books
€13.49
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Person
EDWARD HIRSCH is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published ten books of poems and six books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.