Where Books Fall Open: A Reader's Anthology of Wit & PassionThis is a book about books, about the pleasures, passions, and rewards of reading, about authors dedicated to writing and readers who delight in words in the right order. It contains a rich selection devoted to this seductive subject, from Calvino's meditation on selecting a title in a bookstore to Woolf's essays on the joys of "the common reader," from Schwartz's "Ruined by Reading" to Eco's "How to Organize a Public Library." The book is illuminated by sixteen full-color paintings by Bascove, who here serves as editor, illustrator, and primum mobile. Produced to the highest standards, it is not only a gift for the literary, but also an inducement to the diffident. |
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... Poet 42 Jane Kenyon Afternoon in the House 43 Rainer Maria Rilke The Notebooks of Maulte Laurids Brigge 44 Qin Zihao Seeds of Poetry 46 Langston Hughes English B 47 Calvin Trillin Opportunities in Poetry 49 Pablo Neruda Word 50 Jerome ...
... Poet 42 Jane Kenyon Afternoon in the House 43 Rainer Maria Rilke The Notebooks of Maulte Laurids Brigge 44 Qin Zihao Seeds of Poetry 46 Langston Hughes English B 47 Calvin Trillin Opportunities in Poetry 49 Pablo Neruda Word 50 Jerome ...
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... poet . A poet : not a versifier . Not a hot - shot ethic - monger , laying about him ; not a diary of lying about in cruel cruel beds , crying . A poet , dangerous and steep . O God , it peels me , juices me like a press ; this poetry ...
... poet . A poet : not a versifier . Not a hot - shot ethic - monger , laying about him ; not a diary of lying about in cruel cruel beds , crying . A poet , dangerous and steep . O God , it peels me , juices me like a press ; this poetry ...
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... Poetry's Value ” , from Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry , edited by Michelle Yeh . Copyright © 1992 by Yale University . Used by permis- sion of Yale University Press . Pablo Neruda : " Word " , from Five Decades : Poems 1925-1970 ...
... Poetry's Value ” , from Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry , edited by Michelle Yeh . Copyright © 1992 by Yale University . Used by permis- sion of Yale University Press . Pablo Neruda : " Word " , from Five Decades : Poems 1925-1970 ...
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