{"product_id":"this-art-poems-about-poetry-paperback","title":"This Art: Poems about Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Wiegers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe centuries have changed little in this art, \u003cbr\u003e The subjects are still the same.--Kenneth Rexroth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, \"this urge to making a scrapbook of stars\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery poet, by accident or design, has responded to \"Why poetry\" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Marvin Bell has written, \"Writing is all and everything.\" This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry--which draws widely from Copper Canyon's 30-year backlist of poetry books--proves him right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoets write out of love and longing: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLord, let me live \/ long enough to dare \/a love poem --Cyrus Cassells\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoets confront suffering: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esince we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.--David Budbill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd poets write in order to live fully: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe all stumble into ourselves \/like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters, \/ while the page gallops out of our reach--Rebecca Seiferle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly poetry lasts.--Ho Xuan Huong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Wiegers \u003c\/b\u003eis the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTRIBUTORS Included: [box]\u003cbr\u003e Kay Boyle, \u003cbr\u003e Olga Broumas, \u003cbr\u003e Hayden Carruth, \u003cbr\u003e Norman Dubie, \u003cbr\u003e Han Shan, \u003cbr\u003e Jim Harrison, \u003cbr\u003e Carolyn Kizer, \u003cbr\u003e W.S. Merwin, \u003cbr\u003e Jane Miller, \u003cbr\u003e Kenneth Rexroth, \u003cbr\u003e Ruth Stone, \u003cbr\u003e Anna Swir\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.16 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50329663144173,"sku":"9781556591846","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/kW3r2nHoYY9781556591846.webp?v=1784913740","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/products\/this-art-poems-about-poetry-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}