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Poems for Life : Celebrities Choose Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them by Nightingale-Bamford Nightingale-Bamford School (2022, Hardcover)
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Now available again, this enchanting collection of 50 great poems continues to inspire with pleasure and wonder—a perfect gift.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-101950994368
ISBN-139781950994366
eBay Product ID (ePID)8050421689
Product Key Features
Book TitlePoems for Life : Celebrities Choose Their Favorite Poem and Say Why It Inspires Them
Number of Pages120 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAnthologies (Multiple Authors), American / General, Subjects & Themes / Family
Publication Year2022
GenrePoetry
AuthorNightingale-Bamford Nightingale-Bamford School
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal821.008
SynopsisNow available again, this enchanting collection of 50 great poems continues to inspire with pleasure and wonder-- a perfect gift. When a group of fifth-grade students asked fifty celebrities what their favorite poem was and why, the answers they received became a beautiful collection of some the world's most beloved poems, from classic to modern, that continues to offer inspiration, solace, wisdom, and amusement. Each poem is accompanied by the celebrity's brief letter explaining why they chose it and its resonance for them.Among the celebrities are Yo-Yo Ma, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Allen Ginsberg, Angela Lansbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Harolyn Blackwell, Isabella Rossellini, Bill Irwin, E. L. Doctorow, David Mamet, Elie Wiesel, Ally Sheedy, Ved Mehta, Tom Wolfe, David Dinkins, and Susan Minot. The poets include Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Alice Walker, Mary Oliver, Frank O'Hara, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats. and John Keats -- not to mention Noel Coward and a ditty by David Mamet himself! Anna Quindlen and verse from Pulitzer Prize - winner Yusef Komunyakaa provide a thoughtful introduction.Royalties from this collection have been donated to charity since its original publication., Now available again, this enchanting collection of 50 great poems continues to inspire with pleasure and wonder--a perfect gift. When a group of fifth-grade students asked fifty celebrities what their favorite poem was and why, the answers they received became a beautiful collection of some the world's most beloved poems, from classic to modern, that continues to offer inspiration, solace, wisdom, and amusement. Each poem is accompanied by the celebrity's brief letter explaining why they chose it and its resonance for them. Among the celebrities are Yo-Yo Ma, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Sondheim, Allen Ginsberg, Angela Lansbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Harolyn Blackwell, Isabella Rossellini, Bill Irwin, E. L. Doctorow, David Mamet, Elie Wiesel, Ally Sheedy, Ved Mehta, Tom Wolfe, David Dinkins, and Susan Minot. The poets include Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Alice Walker, Mary Oliver, Frank O'Hara, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, W. B. Yeats. and John Keats--not to mention Noel Coward and a ditty by David Mamet himself! Anna Quindlen and verse from Pulitzer Prize-winner Yusef Komunyakaa provide a thoughtful introduction. Royalties from this collection have been donated to charity since its original publication.
LC Classification NumberPR1175
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