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From New York, April 1, 2000
Bill Wadsworth, Executive Director of The Academy of American Poets, announced
the fifth National Poetry Month by observing that, "On the page, on the web,
in the media, and in gatherings all across the United States, poetry has
permeated our culture. More poetry books are being published. More readings
are taking place. More children are discovering poetry in and out of the
classroom. National Poetry Month provides an opportunity for Americans of
all ages to learn more about the tremendous vitality and variety of our
contemporary poetry."
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Mayflies by Richard Wilbur
In 1989 Richard Wilbur published New and Collected Poems,
a landmark volume that won that year's Pulitzer Prize. Now, ten years later,
he has prepared a collection of all the poetry he has written in the intervening
years, together with new translations of Moliere (from Amphitryon) and Dante.
These twenty-five poems reaffirm Wilbur's stature as one of our greatest
living masters of verse.
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Living On Fire: A Collection Of Poems
When her first collection, Ants on the Melon, was published
in 1996, the 83-year-old Virginia Hamilton Adair was widely hailed as a literary
comet. Her third, Living on Fire, offers yet another chance to marvel at
Adair's poetic gifts. And with the thousands of poems rumored to be remaining
in her enormous stockpile, we may well be sky gazing longer than we had any
right to expect.
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On The Bus With Rose Parks by Rita Dove
Pulitzer winner, and former Poet
Laureate
Dove's brilliance--as with all great writers--is inextricable
from her formal gifts: her poems effortlessly suggest grand narratives and
American myths, yet ground themselves tersely in localities, characters,
practicalities and particulars.
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Americans' Favorite Poems
Americans' Favorite Poems offers keen proof that poetry does
make something happen, that it can give strength and perspective, inspire
and alter lives, and comfort and surprise. How did this grassroots golden
anthology come about? When Robert Pinsky was named U.S. poet laureate in
1997, he hoped to persuade 100 Americans to recite and discuss their favorite
works. Even he may have been surprised when thousands were moved to contribute
and commune. From the wave of responses, Pinsky has selected 200 poems, each
preceded by one or more testimonials.
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The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury
Until this century, most children's poetry was either syrupy
sweet or overblown and didactic, and tended to talk down to its readers.
Contemporary children's poets have thrown all that condescension and moralizing
out the window, and write with today's real child in mind." - from the
Introduction by Jack Prelutsky Here in one gloriously illustrated volume
are 211 wonderful poems that represent the best this century has to offer.
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