The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry
“Great poetry is personal” writes Christopher Burns in his introduction to this extraordinary collection. “Like a seashell held to your ear, a poem resonates to the beating of your heart. The poet brings the words, you bring your life, and together you make the song.” Burns has created an anthology of great English and American poems that emphasizes the personal aspect of poetry. He has gathered poems that are relevant today and organized them by subject in a meaningful and provocative way. Poets as diverse as Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sara Teasdale, and Gary Snyder, for example, echo the themes and images of “Western Wind” hundreds of years apart. Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, and Janet Flanders describe their mothers. Separated by more than a century, Robert Browning and Richard Wilbur talk about the way men look at women. Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg describe the America each has found. Included here are fine poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, W.
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