First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired ThemCarmela Ciuraru Readers will be delighted by the intimate reflections on life and poetry found in "First Loves". Affording close-up views of today's best poets, the book also (re)introduces readers to the timeless poems they selected. Featuring many Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners, the book includes essays by Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Jorie Graham, Yusef Komunyakaa, and many others. |
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Contents
Foreword by Alice Quinn | 11 |
Virginia Hamilton Adair on Along the Road by Robert | 27 |
A R Ammons on In Flanders Fields by John McCrae | 35 |
Sophie Cabot Black on 754 My Life had stood | 44 |
Eavan Boland on The Wild Swans at Coole by William | 51 |
Wanda Coleman on Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll | 58 |
Robert Creeley on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes | 66 |
Carolyn Forché on Requiem by Anna Akhmatova | 83 |
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