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

Ciuraru, Carmela (editor) and Alice Quinn (forward)

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Published by Scribner's, New York, 2000

068486438X / 9780684864389

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AS NEW | AS NEW, 1st edition / 1st printing, turquoise boards and black cloth quarter binding w silver font on spine, 268 pps, index, contributors notes. Appears unread. Book is truly as new, flawless, without any writing or marks and with a very tight and straight spine. Dust wrapper is not price clipped and also without tears or any noted flaws. Now under mylar wraps. GIFT QUALITY pristine copy. "The Washington Post A funny and provocative collection of short essays about falling in love with words.Ciuraru asks 68 well-known poets, "What poem has haunted you, provoked you, obsessed you, made you want to speak back to it?" In response, each writer provides one example and a short essay. The results are at once magical." Alexie, Ammons, Atwood, Coleman, Collins, Creeley, Doty, Forche, Gluck, Hall, Kumin, Levine, McClatchy, Oates, Pinsky, Strand, Wilbur, C. K. Williams, etc. writing about Kinnell, Roethke, Yeats, Crane, Lorca, H.D.,Yeats, Sandburg, Frost, MacLeish, Stevens, Rilke, etc.

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Title
First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them
Author
Ciuraru, Carmela (editor) and Alice Quinn (forward)
Publisher
Scribner's, New York
Publication year
2000
Condition
As New
Dust jacket
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
068486438X
ISBN 13
9780684864389
Edition
1st Edition
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8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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