The Hand of The Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript (First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Rizzoli (New York), 1997
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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 Brontë, 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 OHara, 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 Glück, 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)
- Author
- Rodney Phillips
- Publisher
- Rizzoli (New York)
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0847819582
- ISBN 13
- 9780847819584
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Poetry
--Dylan Thomas
This unique volume celebrates poetry by providing a personal, intimate connection with the act of its creation. 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, from John Donne to Mark Strand, Samuel Coleridge to Anne Waldman, Lord Byron to Julia Alvarez, William Blake to Lorine Niedecker and Stanley Kunitz. Writers better known for their prose are included here as well-- Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov, among others.
This book records the place of poetry in daily life and how, exactly, we turn to it as, in the words of Allen Ginsberg, not "just pretty or just beautiful," but "basic to human existence." As Dana Gioia notes in his introduction, "The Magical Value of Manuscripts," contact with handwritten manuscripts speaks to the same desire manifest in the explosion of poetry readings occurring today nationwide.
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. Following both the inspiration and the labors of these writers, readers may find themselves in the position of Ralph Waldo Emerson following the travels of Henry David Thoreau: "It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own...."
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About the Author
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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