Sleeping on the Wing
An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing
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Publisher Description
This book is specifically for high school students, though it is useful to college students and anyone interested in the art and craft of poetry. Koch and Farrell, experienced teachers as well as poets, write about poetry in such a way that students will find it accessible and interesting. The book includes selections of poetry by twenty-three poets, among them Dickinson, Hopkins, Pound, Williams and Eliot, as well as Ginsberg, O'Hara, Baraka and Ashbery. There is also the translated work of such modern European poets such as Lorca, Rilke, Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Mayakowsky.
Customer Reviews
Helpful book!
Needed this book for a school project and it's full of good tips on how to write poems, also it has a bio for all the poets in the book. Finally it's filled with good poems and a lot of them I hadn't read before, just wish the book had more poems by Walt Whitman.