First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them

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Carmela Ciuraru
Simon and Schuster, 2001 - 268 pagina's
Readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others.

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Foreword by Alice Quinn
11
Virginia Hamilton Adair on Along the Road by Robert
27
A R Ammons on In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
35
Sophie Cabot Black on 754 My Life had stood
44
Eavan Boland on The Wild Swans at Coole by William
51
Wanda Coleman on Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
58
Robert Creeley on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
66
Carolyn Forché on Requiem by Anna Akhmatova
83
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Carmela Ciuraru is a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, she lives in New York City.

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