The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry

The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry
Author: William Harmon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1990
Genre: American poetry
ISBN:

An anthology of one hundred poems that have achieved the greatest success for the longest time with the largest number of readers. Includes brief biographies of the poets and an index of titles and first lines.

Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-Day
Author: Academy of American Poets, Inc.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781419717994

For 80 years, the Academy of American Poets has been one of the most influential and respected champions of contemporary American poetry. Through their successful Poem-a-Day online program, the Academy continues to celebrate verse by delivering poems to thousands of e-mail subscribers each morning. Now for the first time, the poems selected by the Academy for this program are available in book form so that they can be collected and savored. Loosely organized according to the flow and themes of the seasons (for example, the month of February includes poems on love, lust, and heartache), this substantial volume is designed to encourage the daily practice of reading poetry. A thematic index is included so that poems can be sought out for popular occasions such as marriage, graduation, and holidays, or enjoyed any day of the year.

Songs of Ourselves

Songs of Ourselves
Author: Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674042964

In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

The Quote Sleuth

The Quote Sleuth
Author: Anthony W. Shipps
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1990
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780252016950

The tracer's goals are to identify the source of a quotation, to find or to produce detailed citation based on a reliable edition of the work, to find an authoritative text of the passage being traced, and to do all this in the shortest time possible and with the least possible amount of effort.