Americans' Favorite Poems

Pinsky, Robert and Dietz, Maggie (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0393048209 / ISBN 13: 9780393048209

Published by Norton, 2000, 1999

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Previous owners emnbossed stamp on first endpaper otherwise Fine in Fine but price clipped jacket.Signed by Pinsky on Title page. 1st Edition, 1st Printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Americans' Favorite Poems
• Publisher: Norton, 2000
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393048209
• ISBN 13: 9780393048209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY

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Synopsis

This anthology embodies Robert Pinsky's commitment to discover America's beloved poems, his special undertaking as Poet Laureate of the United States.

The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or recall the trail of loss and sorrow. The poems and poets in this anthology―from Sappho to Lorca, from Shakespeare and Chaucer to Gwendolyn Brooks, Louise Bluck, and Allen Ginsberg―are poems to be read aloud and memorized, poems to be celebrated as part of our nation's cultural inheritance. Accompanying the poems are comments by people who speak not as professional critics but as passionate readers of various ages, professions and regions. This anthology, in a manner unlike any other, discloses the rich and vigorous presence of poetry in American life at the millennium and provides a portrait of the United States through the lens of poetry.

About the Authors

Maggie Dietz is the Favorite Poem Project's director. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Robert Pinsky is the award-winning author of over twenty volumes of poetry. He served as United States poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. He teaches at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.