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Poet's Choice
by Edward Hirsch
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 015101356X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013562
- Seller
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About This Item
Orlando, Florida: Harcourt, Inc., 2006. D5 - A first edition (stated with complete letterline) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the edges, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Rich, relevant, always inviting, and suffused with Hirsch's deep sensitivity to the nuances of language, Poet's Choice deftly illustrates how poems need readers to experience them and how individuals can appreciate the full beauty of life through poetry. 9.5"x6.5", 432 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Edward Hirsch began writing a column in the Washington Post Book World called "Poet's Choice" in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry; Poet's Choice includes the work of more than 130 poets-from Asia and the Middle East to Europe and America, from ancient times to the present-and demonstrates how poetry responds to the challenges of our modern world. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book reveals how poetry both puts us in touch with ourselves and connects us to each other. I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, Insecure, stretched out, shivering with sleep, Going on down, into the moist guts of the earth, Taking in and thinking, eating every day. I don't want so much misery. I don't want to go on as a root and a tomb, Alone under the ground, a warehouse with corpses, Half frozen, dying of grief. -from "WALKING AROUND" by PABLO NERUDA, translated by ROBERT BLY
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ec50697
- Title
- Poet's Choice
- Author
- Edward Hirsch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 015101356X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151013562
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- POETRY HISTORY AND CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry / Poetry Criticism & Theory;
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