Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry - Softcover

Nims, John Frederick; Mason, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073031801 ISBN 13: 9780073031804

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1999

Synopsis

This collection of classic and contemporary poems also includes exercises, chapter summaries, games, diagrams, illustrations, and 4-colour reproductions of great works of art. This edition incorporates many new poets and expanded coverage of women and ethnic poets.

About this title

About the Author:

David Mason was born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, and received degrees from The Colorado College and the University of Rochester. He spent most of his twenties traveling and working as a manual laborer, with a brief stint working for a film company. He has taught at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and is now on the faculty of The Colorado College. He lives in the mountains outside Colorado Springs. Masons two prize-winning books of poems are The Buried Houses (1991) and The Country I Remember (1996). With Mark Jarman he co-edited Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism (1996; reprinted 1998) and with the late John Frederick Nims Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (2000). His collection of literary essays, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, appeared in 2000. Mason is also a memoirist, fiction writer and frequent book reviewer.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0073031801
• ISBN 13: 9780073031804
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 672