New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1997. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Black cloth spine over brown paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Gray endpapers. Fine in a fine photographic dust jacket, with one small scratch on the rear panel. A tight, clean copy. Quarto, x + 358 pages, illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Foreword by Paul LeClerc; introduction by Rodney Phillips; essays by Dana Gioia. Based on the acclaimed exhibition at The New York Public Library, this book presents manuscripts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia from one hundred poets spanning the seventeenth century to the present day, offering intimate glimpses into their working processes. Featured poets include John Donne, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Emily Bront�, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew, Hilaire Belloc, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, W.B. Yeats, James Stephens, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg, Humbert Wolfe, Anna Wickham, D.H. Lawrence, Robert Graves, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robinson Jeffers, William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, E.E. Cummings, Vladimir Nabokov, W.H. Auden, Louise Bogan, Kay Boyle, Lorine Niedecker, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Stanley Kunitz, Jean Garrigue, May Sarton, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Moss, Richard Wilbur, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, James Schuyler, Frank O Hara, Kenneth Koch, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Donald Justice, Samuel Menashe, James Merrill, Amy Clampitt, James Wright, W.S. Merwin, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Philip Levine, Jean Valentine, Adrienne Rich, Amiri Baraka, Mark Strand, Louise Gl�ck, Charles Simic, Ai, Dana Gioia, and Julia Alvarez. Notable manuscripts include Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" and W.H. Auden's "Stop All the Clocks." Includes a "Prado of poetry" history of the Berg Collection by Dana Gioia, suggestions for further reading, a checklist of illustrations, and an index. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector.

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Title

The Hand of The Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript (First Edition)

Publisher

Rizzoli (New York)

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

0847819582

ISBN 13

9780847819584

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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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.

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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.

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