An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology

For a reader unaccustomed to reading poetry, or who has fallen away from the custom, this collection offers an inviting way into the art, or back into it. For readers devoted to poetry, it offers illuminating examples of the infinitely various ways a poem reaches a reader.

In both the book and the videos on the accompanying DVD, poems by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, and Dickinson as well as contemporary poets are introduced by people from across the United States--a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glassblower, a marine--each of whom speaks about his or her connection to the poem. Their comments are variously poignant, funny, heartening, tart, penetrating, and eccentric, showing some of the ways poetry is alive for American readers. An Invitation to Poetry will inspire a fresh experience of poetry's pleasure and insight.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/2004
ISBN: 9780393058765
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.64h x 6.48w x 1.12d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2004 pg. 74
Library Journal 08/01/2004 pg. 86
Library Journal 04/01/2004