An Invitation to Poetry

A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology [Includes a DVD featuring project participants]

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Edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published August 2004, 352 pages, cloth

ISBN 039305876x

For a reader unaccustomed to reading poetry, or who has fallen away from the custom, this collection offers an inviting way into the art, or back into it. For readers devoted to poetry, it offers examples of the infinitely various ways a poem reaches a reader. In both the book and the videos on the accompanying DVD, poems by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, and Dickinson as well as contemporary poets are introduced by people from across the United States--a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glassblower, a marine--each of whom speaks about his or her connection to the poem. Their comments show some of the ways poetry is alive for American readers.