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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hirsch, Edward. How to read a poem. New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1999 (OCoLC)648445205 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward Hirsch; Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies. |
| ISBN: | 0151004196 9780151004195 0156005662 9780156005661 |
| OCLC Number: | 40347405 |
| Notes: | "A DoubleTake book." "Published by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with---." |
| Description: | xvi, 352 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Message in a bottle -- A made thing -- A hand, a hook, a prayer -- Three initiations -- At the white heat -- Five acts -- Beyond desolation -- Poetry and history : Polish poetry after the end of the world -- Re : form -- A shadowy exultation -- Soul in action -- "To the reader at parting" -- The glossary and the pleasure of the text -- A reading list and the pleasure of the catalog. |
| Series Title: | Harvest Reading guide. |
| Responsibility: | Edward Hirsch. |
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Abstract:
In a reading of world poetry, including verse by Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, William Wordsworth, Sylvia Plath, and more, Hirsch reveals the purpose of a poet's words and ideas.
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"A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom."-The Baltimore Sun <br>"Hirsch's contribution is significant, [grounded] in the obvious pleasure he has experienced through words. . . . Who could resist the wiles of this poetry-broker-a writer rapidly becoming the baby boomers' preeminent man of letters?"-Detroit Free Press <br>"Laudable . . . The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read a poem is: Ecstatically."-The Boston Book Review <br> Read more...
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