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Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry [Jan 01, 19..
by Koch, Kenneth
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 068483992X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684839929
- Seller
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Rollinsford, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Scribner, 1998-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. Scribner 1998 first edition first printing hardcover, fine quarter cloth in fine dust jacket Prompt, reliable service, shipped next business day. Int'l mailed via first class or priority.
Synopsis
In Making Your Own Days, celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no one had written about it before. Full of fresh and exciting insights and experiences, this book makes the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry clear for those who read it and for those who write it -- and for those who would like to read and write it better. Treating poetry not as a special use of language but, in fact, as a separate language -- unlike the one used in prose and conversation -- Koch is able to clarify the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens in a reader's mind and feelings while reading a poem. Koch also provides a rich anthology of more than ninety works: lyric poems, excerpts from long poems and poetic plays, poems in English, and poems in translation -- by poets past and present from Homer and Sappho to Lorca, Snyder, and Ashbery. Each selection is accompanied by an illuminating explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text. In this book, Kenneth Koch's genius for making poetry clear and for bringing out its real pleasures is everywhere apparent.
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- Sperry Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MhcNF122151
- Title
- Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry [Jan 01, 19..
- Author
- Koch, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 068483992X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684839929
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998-01-01
- X weight
- 20 oz
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