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A collection of sharp, entertaining, and informative essays by poet Robert Pinsky, Poetry and the World is a passionate inquiry into poetry's place in the modem world. Combining the arts of criticism and autobiography, Pinsky writes about poets as diverse as Walt VVhitman and Philip Freneau, Marianne Moore and Frank O'Hara, about a visit to Poland during the early days of Solidarity, and his own childhood in a seedy New Jersey resort town. The scope and diversity of these essays confirm Pinsky's stature as not only one of our best poets, but as a perceptive and engaging critic as well.

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This acclaimed anthology takes the reader on a literary journey along the Jersey Shore from the tip of Sandy Hook to Cape May Point. More than 40 short stories, essays and poems capture this beloved stretch of sandy beaches, bays, boardwalks, and towns, along with documentary photographs and art. Contributors include nationally celebrated authors (John McPhee, Gay Talese, Robert Pinsky, among others) as well as talented writers whose work promises future acclaim. A great beach book in any season, this anthology will transport readers to the Jersey Shore wherever they may be. ... Read more

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Absolutely worth the price of admission!
The sheer scope of this collection shows how impactful the landscape (and seascape) of the Jersey Shore has been.There isn't a bad story in this collection.They are evocative, exciting, emotional and just plainwell-done. ... Read more

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The widely acclaimed Favorite Poem Projectanthology, An Invitation to Poetry, edited byRobert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz, is now available in a value-priced student paperback edition.Bringing together 200 poems chosen by Americanreaders, the anthology includes work by Sappho,Keats, Rilke, Whitman, and Dickinson, as well as by contemporary poets. The selections areintroduced by people from all walks of life—aconstruction worker, a Supreme Court justice, aglass blower, a marine—each commenting on his or her connection to the poem.

An Invitation toPoetry is accompanied by a free DVD featuring avideo introduction by Robert Pinsky and 27 ofthe Favorite Poem Project segments as seen onPBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. ... Read more

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Excellent
This is an excellent classroom addition for teaching poetry . The DVD in the back of the book is a treasure.
A variety of ndividuals briefly discuss how a particular poem has a special personal meaning, neatly driving
home the idea that a poem, or even part of a poem may have a different message,
depending on the eyes of the beholder. The book itself has selections that represent the range and
scope of poetry.

An Invitation to Poetry
This third book edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz is really a winner. It is part of their collection of people's favorite poems, with brief but cogent explanations of why that poem means so much to the person choosing it. In addition to the written poems, an excellent DVD accompanies the volume, with many of the contributors reading their selected poems, sometimes in the original language as well as English.The book is to be savored. The poems are beautiful, meaningful, and accessible.

Poetry: How to get started and enjoy it!
This book and it's accompanying DVD were an unexpected pleasure.
I have a young relative who has a major interest in poetry.And I had the opportunity to attend a discussion lead by Robert Pinsky.Given these 'messages', I thought I better attend the Pinksky gathering and learn something. Indeed I did learn and indeed I found a new pleasure. I would recommend An Invitation to Poetry to anyone who has a flicker of interest or no interest in poety.That's where I started.
The accompanying DVD is what grabs you.It is real people from many backgrounds and age groups sharing what poem they most love.Then they read or recite it.It'll blow you away.I found seeing the DVD a motivating factor for reading the poetry.All schools would do well to expose their students to this DVD.

The CD does not play on my CD players
The title says it all.The CD just simply cannot be read by my four CD players.Too much trouble to send it back.It is unlikely that the next CD will work. If the recordings are important to you don't take a chance.

Great Teaching Tool
I was introduced to this book in a graduate level English course on Poetry and Performance.I am now a 10th grade English teacher and have used the DVD accompanying this book in an introductory lesson to my poetry unit, during which I require students to compile a portfolio of their favorite poems.Students seem to really enjoy watching the clips, especially the one of the young man who chose "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks and the young woman who reads "Minstrel Man" by Langston Hughes.I am now buying another copy of this book as a gift for the teacher who hosted me during my student teaching.This book is worth much more than what you pay for it. ... Read more

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Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope brings together Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners, O.Henry award recipients,best-selling authors who share personal and compelling challenges and experiences. They reflect on simple, yet powerful choices that provoked change in oneÂ's self and for humanity. All royalties from the sales of this book will benefit The Save Darfur Coalition. ... Read more

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A feast of essays from top writers
I am thrilled by the variety of contributors and topics and by the quality of the writing.I heard about the book from one of the featured authors, Tom Grimes.So, of course I read his essay first and was very moved by the story of his struggle with depression and his fear that Prozac would dull his instrument, his desire to write.All of the authors give you something to think about as they explore fear, risk, and hope.They reveal important information about themselves, which in turn causes us to ponder our own responses to risk and fear, and how we turn hopeless situations into hopeful ones. Thank you for putting the book together. It's simply great, kind of a Live Aid in writing. ... Read more

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Records of beauty of a lost world
In conjunction with the show at The Brooklyn Museum of Art this Winter, Rizzoli has published the photos by the Russian photographer, David Goberman, aged 88, which he took from the 1930s through the 1960s of Jewishgravestones. The photos document the vanishing art of stone carvers andhighlights themes of folk art and spiritual belief. The photos also providea timeless record of Jewish tradition in the Ukraine and Moldova.Intricately carved motifs include crowns of the Torah, signs of the Kohanim(split fingers), birds, fallen fruit, a single candle, a broken tree andthree small chicks (for the mother who dies leaving three young children),fish, deer, unicorns, bear, lions, and fighting lions. Those with menorahs,grapes and water jugs usually represented Levites. Peacocks representparadise. An excellent book to cherish and learn from.

Jewish Folk Art in Stone
There are over 100 photographs of tombstones from Jewish towns (shtetls) in Ukraine and Moldova taken by a Russian photographer surreptitiously during the 1950's and 1960's in the Soviet Union. The images range from lions and dragons to seahorses and rabbits -- Jewish stonecarvers used thestones for artistic expression, as well as text to describe the deceased(translated in detail on many stones).The book was published to coincidewith an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum that opens on January 13 and runsthrough April.Many of the stones shown here were torn up during theStalin regime and used to make factory steps or fish ponds, so this is theonly historical record. ... Read more

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A beautiful and authentic translation
I am a big fan of Edmund Keeley's translations of Demotic Greek and Katherevousa.Having an armchair scholar's knowledge of the language I can appreciate the labor that has gone in to the refinement of the translations in the decades since the first edition.This volume reads very well in English, and I have given many of these as gifts over the years to poetry fans who do not know a word of Greek, always resulting in a comment about how such a poet could be so little known.Cavafy probably would have preferred it that way!

A must if you like modernist poetry
There is nothing that can adequately describe the first time you read Cavafy.It is like a breath of fresh air or a cold shower on a hot day... completely envigorating and different to anything you've ever read before.

I've shared his poetry with friends and they are all blown away.

Cavafy's erotic poems show a sensitivity and directness that is quite unique.

His personal reflective pieces are extremely insightful.I would say that you will get a better understanding of Existential philosophy through this small book of poems than any tomes from the likes of Satre, Camus, Beckett.

His historical poems are best appreciated if you know Byzantine history and the notes in the book are a fantastic to set the context.

This book deserves to be in any personal or public library

Cavafy is an excellent poet
Cavafy is a poet with a view that is both ancient and modern. It's a poet that has a language that is both exuberant and emotional without being too excessive.

Haunting, profound poems of antiquity, love and loss.
As with any poems translated from a language I have never learned, I am left wondering just how close Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard have come to the original style and substance of C.P. Cavafy, the great Alexandrian Greek poet of the early 20th century. (Keeley and Sherrard are scrupulous in their end notes, noting untranslatable words and the original rhyme schemes of poems translated into free verse.) Even in translation, these poems are exquisite, haunting both my dreams and my waking thoughts. Cavafy essentially had only a few subjects, but they were great ones--the lost glory of antiquity, the inevitable decline of the mighty, the death of love and beauty, the folly of human striving, the crucial importance of memory and history. In language of deceptive simplicity, he limned the ephemeral nature of beautiful things and the empty spaces their loss leaves in the soul. (Cavafy, openly gay at a time when homosexuality was truly the love that dare not speak its name, wrote only of lost, passing or unrequited love.) Most of these poems are very short, but they insinuate themselves inextricably into memory, such as "The Mirror in the Front Hall," depicting a handsome young man who stops to straighten his tie: "the old mirror was all joy now,/proud to have embraced/total beauty for a few moments." My own favorite in the book is one of the longer poems, "Orophernis," about a wastrel king of the 2nd Century B.C. who came to grief trying to be a real king for once. The final five lines of this poems are Cavafy in a nutshell; The figure on this four drachma coin, a trace of whose young charm can still be seen, a ray of his poetic beauty-- this sensuous commemoration of an Ionian boy, this is Orophernis, son of Ariarathis.

Cavafy in Greek...
I own a copy of the original collection of Cavafy's poems (in Greek) and I find that this translation has measured up to the task of translating the forceful and sensual poetry as closely as possible. And for anyone who cannot read Greek, this book will bring you as close as possible to the intense emotional response of reading the original. A must have for any poetry lover. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Czesław Miłosz, Seamus Heaney, Jeremiah Curtin, Robert Pinsky, Anthea Bell, Stanisław Barańczak, Daniel Bourne, Leo Yankevich, Walter Whipple, Christopher Kasparek, Marcel Weyland, Norbert Guterman, Michael Kandel, Louis Iribarne, Charles S. Kraszewski. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Seamus Heaney (born 13 April 1939, pronounced ) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006. He currently lives in Dublin. Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge in Northern Ireland; he was the first of nine children. In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy, a few miles away, which is now the family home. His father, Patrick Heaney, a local of Castledawson, was the eighth child of ten born to James and Sarah Heaney. Patrick was a farmer but his real commitment was to cattle-dealing, to which he was introduced by the uncles who had cared for him after the early death of his own parents. Heaney's mother came from the McCann family, whose uncles and relations were employed in the local linen mill and whose aunt had worked as a maid for the mill owner's family. The poet has commented on the fact that his parentage thus contains both the Ireland of the cattle-herding Gaelic past and the Ulster of the Industrial Revolution; he considers this to have been a significant tension in his background. Heaney initially attended Anahorish Primary School and when he was twelve-years-old, he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in Derry. Heaney's brother, Christopher, was killed in a road accident at the age of four (while Heaney was studying at St. Columb's). The poems Mid-Term Break and The ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=50920 ... Read more

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Chapters: Dorothy L. Sayers, William Weaver, Alfred Elwes, Eric Blom, Robert Pinsky, W. S. Di Piero, Henry Francis Cary, Ruth Feldman, Michael Palma, Barbara Reynolds, Frank Judge, Thomas Hoby, Anthony Molino, Andrew Frisardi, Thomas North, Stephen Sartarelli, Anne Bacon, Anthony M. Esolen, Adria Bernardi, Ann Snodgrass, George Bull, Helen Lane, Francesca Alexander, Clara de Chatelain, Patrick Barron, Emanuel Di Pasquale, Beryl de Zoete, Edward Fairfax, Thomas William Parsons, Linda White Mazini Villari, Allan Cameron, Raymond Rosenthal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 127. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually pronounced , although Sayers herself preferred and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciation) (Oxford, 13 June 1893 Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She is also known for her plays and essays. Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where Sayers' father was headmaster of the Choir SchoolSayers, an only child, was born on 13 June 1893 at the Head Master's House, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where her father, the Rev. Henry Sayers, M.A., was chaplain of Christ Church and headmaster of the Choir School. (When she was six he started teaching her Latin.) She grew up in the tiny village of Bluntisham-cum-Earith after her father was given the living there as rector. The elegance of the Regency recto...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23664291 ... Read more

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Title: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: "Keeping You Safe Beside Me" and Robert Pinsky: Our Premier Poet Scholar. (Book Reviews).(Video Recording Review)
Author: John Marsden
Publication: Studies in the Humanities (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2000
Publisher: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Department of English
Volume: 27Issue: 1Page: 84(3)

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Chapters: Eliot Spitzer, Christopher Hitchens, Tim Wu, Jon Katz, Mickey Kaus, Steven Landsburg, Robert Pinsky, Michael Kinsley, Karenna Gore Schiff, John Dickerson, Henry Blodget, Dahlia Lithwick, Timothy Noah, Emily Yoffe, Eric Liu, Jack Shafer, Jacob Weisberg, William Saletan, Daniel Gross, Elisabeth Eaves, David Plotz, Fred Kaplan, Farhad Manjoo, Paul Boutin, Edward Jay Epstein, Sydney Spiesel, Cliff Sloan, Jodie Allen. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 125. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is an American lawyer and former politician of the Democratic Party. He served as the 54th Governor of New York from January 2007 until his resignation on March 17, 2008 in the wake of the exposure of his involvement as a client in a high-priced prostitution ring. Prior to being elected governor, Spitzer served as New York State Attorney General. Spitzer was born and raised in The Bronx, to Jewish real estate tycoon Bernard Spitzer and Anne Spitzer, an English literature professor. After being rejected by Harvard University, he attended Princeton University for his undergraduate studies and then Harvard Law School for his Juris Doctor. It was there that he met his future wife, Silda Wall. After earning his Juris Doctor degree, Spitzer joined the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton ... Read more