THE MCSWEENEY'S BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS.
by Orr, David, introduction
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 1932416811
- ISBN 13
- 9781932416817
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About This Item
McSweeney's,, (2007). First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A book which brings together 100 poems by 50 poets in ten poet-chains - "ten poets choose a poem of their own and a poem by another poet, who then does the same, and so on unto the fifth generation. Thus D. C. Berman leads to Charles Simic by way of James Tate, and other chains run through Mary Karr, Denis Johnson, C. D. Wright, Michael Ondaatje, John Ashbery, Mark Doty, C. K. Wright, Dean Young, Yusef Komunyakaa, and dozens more." Includes contributions from Brenda Hillman, Harryette Mullen, Kay Ryan, Jane Hirschfeld, Forrest Hamer and others. Introduction by David Orr. Notes on contributors. x, 211 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88088
- Title
- THE MCSWEENEY'S BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS.
- Author
- Orr, David, introduction
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1932416811
- ISBN 13
- 9781932416817
- Publisher
- McSweeney's,
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- (2007)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry Anthology;
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