A Poet’s Sourcebook: Writings about Poetry, from the Ancient World to the Present
US List Price: $34.95
A Poet’s Sourcebook: Writings about Poetry, from the Ancient World to the Present
US List Price: $34.95
About the Book
A collection of writings about poetry from both ancient and contemporary writers including Homer, Plato, Aristotle, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Philip Levine, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, and Rita Dove.
This anthology is [. . .] one reader’s record of the long human need to make poetry. For no matter how distant in time those individuals have become, reading about that need, in both their own words and the words of others, keeps our relationship with them intimate and immediate.
—Dawn Potter
Dawn Potter is the author of six poetry collections: Boy Land & Other Poems (Deerbrook Editions), How the Crimes Happened (CavanKerry Press), Same Old Story (CavanKerry Press), Chestnut Ridge (Deerbrook Editions), Accidental Hymn (Deerbrook Editions), and most recently Calendar (Deerbrook Editions). She has also published the memoir Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton (University of Massachusetts Press), the essay collection The Vagabond’s Bookshelf (Deerbrook Editions), and a teaching […]
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