First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired ThemWhen Carmela Ciuraru, former editor of the Journal of the Poetry Society of America, asked poets to recount their first experiences with verse, the response was astounding. Poets ardently selected the poems that made them fall in love with poetry, commemorating the sparks that led to a lifelong commitment to the architecture of language. The result, featuring many Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poets, is a marvelous anthology of poignant, intimate, often humorous essays accompanied by the poems that inspired our most celebrated poets. Regardless of your relationship to verse -- reader, student, writer, or someone entirely new to its myriad pleasures -- First Loves is sure to enchant and delight. |
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... Stevenson THYLIAS MOSS on Yehuda ArnUhai LISEL MUELLER on Carl Sandburg JOYCE CAROL OATES on Robert Frost ROBERT l'INSKY on William Butler Yeats MARIE PONSOT on H.D. MARK STRAND on Archibald MatLcish JAMES TATE on Wallace Stevens ...
... Stevenson THYLIAS MOSS on Yehuda ArnUhai LISEL MUELLER on Carl Sandburg JOYCE CAROL OATES on Robert Frost ROBERT l'INSKY on William Butler Yeats MARIE PONSOT on H.D. MARK STRAND on Archibald MatLcish JAMES TATE on Wallace Stevens ...
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... Dickinson 44 Star Black on "The World as Meditation" by Wallace Stevens 47 Eavan Boland on "The Wild Swans at Coole" by William Butler Yeats 49 Henri Cole on "Voyages" by Hart Crane 52 Wanda Coleman on "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll ...
... Dickinson 44 Star Black on "The World as Meditation" by Wallace Stevens 47 Eavan Boland on "The Wild Swans at Coole" by William Butler Yeats 49 Henri Cole on "Voyages" by Hart Crane 52 Wanda Coleman on "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll ...
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... Bugle, Blow" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 99 Donald Hall on "Heat" by H.D. 101 Daniel Halpern on "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens 103 Seamus Heaney on the Dactyls of Derry 107 Anthony Hecht on "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
... Bugle, Blow" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 99 Donald Hall on "Heat" by H.D. 101 Daniel Halpern on "Sunday Morning" by Wallace Stevens 103 Seamus Heaney on the Dactyls of Derry 107 Anthony Hecht on "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
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... Robert Pinsky on "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats 196 Marie Ponsot on "Helen" by H.D. 1 99 Lawrence Raab on "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll 202 Bin Ramke on "To an Old Philosopher in Rome" by Wallace Stevens 204 Claudia ...
... Robert Pinsky on "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats 196 Marie Ponsot on "Helen" by H.D. 1 99 Lawrence Raab on "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll 202 Bin Ramke on "To an Old Philosopher in Rome" by Wallace Stevens 204 Claudia ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 11 |
Introduction by Carmela Ciuraru | 19 |
Virginia Hamilton Adair on Along the Road by Robert | 27 |
Sherman Alexie on My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke | 33 |
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 |
Yusef Komunyakaa on Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe | 140 |
Ursula K Le Guin on Itylus by Algernon Charles | 148 |
Philip Levine on Greater Love by Wilfred Owen | 156 |
Elizabeth Macklin on If I Could Tell You by W H Auden | 161 |
Heather McHugh on The Second Coming by William | 170 |
Jane Miller on Song of Amargos Mother by Federico | 176 |
Lisel Mueller on Limited by Carl Sandburg | 183 |
Eric Pankey on Junk by Richard Wilbur | 193 |
Toi Derricotte on Southern Road by Sterling Brown | 72 |
Carolyn Forche on Requiem by Anna Akhmatova | 79 |
Louise Gluck on The Little Black Boy by William Blake | 86 |
Allen Grossman on Thanatopsis by William Cullen | 95 |
Donald Hall on Heat by H D | 101 |
Seamus Heaney on the Dactyls of Derry | 107 |
Edward Hirsch on The Night Is Darkening Round | 114 |
bell hooks on I Want to Die While You Love Me by Georgia | 125 |
Brigit Pegeen Kelly on Prologue Act TV Henry V | 132 |
Marie Ponsot on Helen by H D | 199 |
Claudia Rankine on The Black Riders by Cesar Vallejo | 209 |
Frederick Seidel on Canto LXXXI by Ezra Pound | 218 |
Snodgrass on The Marshes of Glynn by Sidney | 225 |
Elizabeth Spires on 449 I died for Beautybut | 228 |
K Williams on The Eighth Elegy by Rainer Maria | 242 |
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| Title | First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them |
| Editor | Carmela Ciuraru |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Simon and Schuster, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0684864398, 9780684864396 |
| Length | 268 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / Poetry |
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