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Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Edward Hirsch
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry respond
Poet's Choice
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Robert Hass
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-03-01 - Publisher: Ecco

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When Robert Haas first took his post as U.S. Poet Laureate, he asked himself, "What can a poet laureate usefully do?" One of his answers was to bring back the p
Sarah's Choice
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Eleanor Wilner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this, her third collection of poems, Eleanor Wilner revises a number of our culture's central myths; invoking figures as diverse as Briar Rose and Miriam the
A Choice of Poets
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: R. P. Hewett
Categories: English Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985-12 - Publisher: Nelson Thornes

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How Poets See the World
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Willard Spiegelman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-06-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. Th