Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (859 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688173462 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dodge Poetry Festival in Waterloo, New Jersey, has been called the Woodstock of poetry. "Poetry is what has saved me," says one poet here; "You never know when your poem will come to someone's rescue," chimes another. --Jane Steinberg. The biennial Geraldine R. For Fooling with Words, Moyers interviews 11 of the poets on the festival's 1998 roster. It is stunning to see so many lovers of poetry gathered in one place. In between are Coleman Barks, Robert Pinsky, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Paul Muldoon, Marge Piercy, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, Kurtis Lamkin, and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. "I lik
"Listening to a variety of poets" according to Gary Sprandel. Bill Moyers loves to hear the tone and textures of poetry. This fondness is expressed in each of eleven poets selected from the Dodge Poetry Festival of 1998. The book starts with 90-year-old Stanley Kunitz reflection on Haley's Comet in 1910 to and contin. interesting collection of interviews with poets. fluffy, the human being. i have been trying (with mixed results) to develop an appreciation of poetry over the last year. so many people seem to love the stuff, why not me then? the more you enjoy in life, the richer your life is. so i want to get there with this poetry stuff. i r. Fred W Hood said A Jewel of Words for Writers and Poets!. Having waded thru Bill Moyers' TV series on Genesis - A Living Conversation and Joseph Campbell Interviews on Myth, I relate to him keenly as following his fame as Presidential Press Agent!In his lengthy series on Genesis, exposing us to Prof Armstrong, Pr
Moyers listens to these and other poets including Lorna Dee Cervantes, Deborah Garrison, Paul Muldoon, Marge Piercy, Kurtis Lamkin, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Stanley Kunitz, and Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, and weaves another invaluable and enjoyable tapestry of poems with the memorable voices of the poets themselves. In dozens of poems and a series of fascinating conversations with poets of all stripes gathered for the acclaimed Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Fooling with Words brings poetry to life for the reader. Coleman Barks not only reads from his translations of Rumi, but also shares the poems that he wrote in tribute to his "most beautiful granddaughter." Mark Doty talks with Moyers about "poetry's great power to preserve, its ability to take a moment in time and hold it forever." Jane Hirshfield talks about the influence on her poetry of the eight years she studied Zen, including three