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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100847819582
ISBN-139780847819584
eBay Product ID (ePID)593888
Product Key Features
Book TitleHand of the Poet : Poems and Papers in Manuscript
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAnthologies (Multiple Authors), Library & Information Science / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year1997
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorDana Gioia, New York Public Library Staff
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN95-050472
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal821.008
SynopsisBased on an enormously successful exhibition at The New York Public Library, The Hand of the Poet draws the reader into the real world of the poet - ink spots, tobacco stains, and all - by presenting a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented. Biographies and portraits of each poet - alongside manuscripts of such legendary works as Yeats's The Wild Swans at Coole and W. H. Auden's Stop All the Clocks - make up a mosaic that offers powerful and often surprising revelations of the person behind the poem. Illustrated with over three hundred black-and-white photographs, The Hand of the Poet is for those new to poetry as well as those for whom poetry has been a life-long passion.