This Art: Poems about Poetry - Michael Wiegers

Descriere This Art: Poems about Poetry - Michael Wiegers

This anthology pays tribute to the art of poetry and Copper Canyon's 30-year dedication to publishing it. \n \nThe centuries have changed little in this art, \n The subjects are still the same.--Kenneth Rexroth\n \nWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, this urge to making a scrapbook of stars?\n \nEvery poet, by accident or design, has responded to Why poetry by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement.\n \nAs Marvin Bell has written, Writing is all and everything. This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry--which draws widely from Copper Canyon's 30-year backlist of poetry books--proves him right.\n \nPoets write out of love and longing: \n \nLord, let me live / long enough to dare /a love poem --Cyrus Cassells\n \nPoets confront suffering: \n \nsince we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.--David Budbill\n \nAnd poets write in order to live fully: \n \nWe all stumble into ourselves /like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters, / while the page gallops out of our reach--Rebecca Seiferle\n \nOnly poetry lasts.--Ho Xuan Huong\n \nMichael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press.\n \nCONTRIBUTORS Included: [box] \n Kay Boyle, \n Olga Broumas, \n Hayden Carruth, \n Norman Dubie, \n Han Shan, \n Jim Harrison, \n Carolyn Kizer, \n W.S. Merwin, \n Jane Miller, \n Kenneth Rexroth, \n Ruth Stone, \n Anna Swir\n

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Copper Canyon Press

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9781556591846

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