Poet's Choice - Hardcover

Hirsch, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 015101356X ISBN 13: 9780151013562

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

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

About this title

Review:

PRAISE FOR POET’S CHOICE"In this loving, enthusiastic guide, one experienced reader’s warmth and openheartedness help to unlock the treasure of poetry for a world of readers." O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

"A deft curator, Hirsch shows you the best vantage point from which to view the 130 poems in this invaluable guide." THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

PRAISE FOR POET'S CHOICE"In this loving, enthusiastic guide, one experienced reader's warmth and openheartedness help to unlock the treasure of poetry for a world of readers."--O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

"A deft curator, Hirsch shows you the best vantage point from which to view the 130 poems in this invaluable guide."--THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

PRAISE FOR POET S CHOICE"In this loving, enthusiastic guide, one experienced reader s warmth and openheartedness help to unlock the treasure of poetry for a world of readers."O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

"A deft curator, Hirsch shows you the best vantage point from which to view the 130 poems in this invaluable guide."THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION"

PRAISE FOR POET S CHOICE
"In this loving, enthusiastic guide, one experienced reader s warmth and openheartedness help to unlock the treasure of poetry for a world of readers." O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

"A deft curator, Hirsch shows you the best vantage point from which to view the 130 poems in this invaluable guide." THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION"

PRAISE FOR POET S CHOICE
"In this loving, enthusiastic guide, one experienced reader s warmth and openheartedness help to unlock the treasure of poetry for a world of readers." O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

"A deft curator, Hirsch shows you the best vantage point from which to view the 130 poems in this invaluable guide." THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION"

From the Back Cover:

Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World 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 one hundred poets from ancient times to the present among them Sappho, W. B. Yeats, Czeslaw Milosz, Primo Levi, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Amy Lowell, Mark Strand, and many more and shares them with all of Hirsch s inimitable enthusiasm and joy. Rich, relevant, and inviting, the book offers us the fruits of a life lived in poetry.
"A deft curator, Hirsch shows you the best vantage point from which to view the 130 poems in this invaluable guide." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
EDWARD HIRSCH is the author of six books of poems and three books of prose, among them the national bestseller How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry. He has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix de Rome, and a MacArthur Fellowship, and is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in New York."

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 015101356X
• ISBN 13: 9780151013562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408