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

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

ISBN 10: 068486438X / ISBN 13: 9780684864389

Published by Scribner's, New York, 2000

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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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them
• Publisher: Scribner's, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068486438X
• ISBN 13: 9780684864389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY/SHORT STORIES*
  • FIRST + LIMITED EDITIONS*

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Synopsis

A collection of poetry selected by today's favorite poets as those that first inspired them includes timeless favorites and insightful essays by Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners including Roethke, Pinsky, and Heaney.

About the Author

Carmela Ciuraru is a graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism and a former editor of the Journal of the Poetry Society of America. She lives in New York City.