Full name: 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem: A Poem for Every Week of the Year

Author: Ruth Padel Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780099429159 0099429152

British poetry is in a wonderful state at present. Never have so many poets been saying so many interesting things in such lively, up-to-date ways. Yet many people feel shut out or know little about poetry and have no idea where to begin. In this groundbreaking book, Ruth Padel takes fifty-two of the poems she discussed in her newspaper column - a year's worth - and suggests ways of reading them. The poems are by a wide range of living poets, on experiences we all share - love, sex, death, nature, history, war - which show how reading a poem can enhance everyone's life as powerfully and as pleasurably as reading novels or watching a film. Similar books: The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Actual Air by David Berman Spring and All by William Carlos Williams Words Under the Words by Naomi Shihab Nye The Lives of the Heart by Jane Hirshfield The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins Come on All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty by Tony Hoagland The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde Sappho by Bliss Carman Loose Woman by Sandra Cisneros The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot Dream Work by Mary Oliver Red Bird by Mary Oliver The Way It Is by William Stafford The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser