Poems to Live By : In Uncertain Times

English

ISBN: 0807068691

EAN: 9780807068694

Category: Poetry / Anthologies (Multiple Authors)

Publisher: Beacon Press

Release Date: 03/10/2002

Synopsis: Thousands heard her poem and were so moved that they contacted her to ask for copies. In the wake of our nations tragedy, poetry has taken on a new relevance in peoples lives. As Dinitia Smith noted in The New York Times, In the weeks since the terrorist attacks, people have been consoling themselves-and one another-with poetry in an almost unprecedented way.Poems to Live By features sixty of the finest poems by an international group of distinguished writers, including W. H. Auden, Czeslaw Milosz, Bertolt Brecht, Yehuda Amichai, Mary Oliver, Miguel de Unamuno, Gwendolyn Brooks, Billy Collins, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sharon Olds. Agreeing with Kenneth Burke that literature is equipment for living, Murray has arranged the anthology in six sections that address our most urgent concerns: death and remembrance, fear and suffering, affirmations and rejoicings, warnings and instructions, war and rumors of war, meditations and conversations.

Poems to Live By : In Uncertain Times

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.41 inches

Width: 5.28 inches

Length: 7.24 inches

Weight: 5.68 oz

Pages: 128