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Essential pleasures : a new anthology of poems to ... Read More

Pinsky, Robert(Added Author).

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Berklee College of Music.

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Stan Getz Library PN6101 .E87 2009 37684001066497 Getz Stacks Copy hold / Volume hold Available -

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393066088
  • ISBN: 9780393066081
  • Physical Description: xx, 508 p. ; 25 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 ... Read More
    sound disc
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note: Includes index.
Audio CD contains poetry read by Robert Pinsky.
Formatted Contents Note: Part VII, Parodies, ripostes, jokes, and insults. On being fired again / Erin Belieu -- Dream song / John Berryman -- Several voices out of a cloud / Louise Bogan -- Doctor fell / Thomas Brown -- On some South African novelists / Roy Campbell -- You don't know what love is / Raymond Carver -- Marriage / Gregory Corso -- Epigrams 42, 60, 62 / J.V. Cunningham -- How we heard the name / Alan Dugan -- How unpleasant to meet Mr. Eliot / T.S. Eliot -- Zero-account / David Gewanter -- Of money / Barnabe Googe -- Afterwards / Seamus Heaney -- Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams / Kenneth Koch -- This be the verse / Philip Larkin -- How pleasant to know Mr. Lear / Edward Lear -- I, being born a woman and distressed / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Reasons that induced Dr. Swift to write a poem called the Lady's dressing room / Lady Mary Wortley Montagu -- To be liked by you would be a calamity / Marianne Moore -- Married state / Katherine Philips -- Hustler speaks of places / Carl Phillips -- Lake isle / Ezra Pound -- Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Chard Whitlow / Henry Reed -- Academic / Theodore Roethke -- Who's on first? / Lloyd Schwartz -- Old Jake / Alan Shapiro -- Thoughts about the person from Porlock / Stevie Smith -- Pleasures of merely circulating / Wallace Stevens -- Eating poetry / Mark Strand -- Lady's dressing room / Jonathan Swift -- Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, dec'd. / Mark Twain -- Grecian kindness / John Wilmot -- Upon nothing / John Wilmot -- Personals / C.D. Wright -- Scholars / William Butler Yeats.
Summary, etc.: A vibrant anthology and accompanying CD that revive a great American tradition: the joy of reciting poetry aloud.

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