The Hand of The Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript

ISBN 10: 0847819582 / ISBN 13: 9780847819584

Published by Rizzoli International Publications, 1997

About this Item

Spine slightly rolled, slight bend in book, foxing top and bottom.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1699726880348

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hand of The Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847819582
• ISBN 13: 9780847819584
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Based on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W. H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks" - make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem. Illustrated with over three hundred black-and-white photographs, The Hand of the Poet is for those new to poetry as well as those for whom poetry has been a life-long passion.

About the Author

Rodney Phillips is the curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library, one of the finest gatherings of its kind in the world. The collection is rich in both manuscripts and first editions of Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, and Jack Kerouac, among others. Susan Benesch, Kenneth Benson, and Barbara Bergeron are New York-based freelance writers.

Dana Gioia, poet and author of the influential "Can Poetry Matter?," has published in many journals and magazines, among them The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and American Book Review.