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In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The Making of a Story: With more than poems, Burns has brought together the classics with the works of modern poets in a way that makes every page a delight. It just doesn't get much better than this. Christopher Burns is a long-time media executive and reader of poetry. His most recent book is Immortal Poets , an expanded anthology of the great poets from Beowulf to Robert Frost, including brief biographies and profiles of the major poetic movements in England, Ireland and America.
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I'm reviewing the Kindle edition of this book. It's a terrific compendium of poetry old and new. The introductory essay is intelligent, and the poems themselves are truly great and well-chosen. Even better, they are so placed that they create new associations for the reader -- three poems about the creation of the world, with three different visions, one after the next, and then seguing into poems about the creative process itself.
Even very familiar works like Fern Hill read differently when placed between other poems that connect to it somehow thematically. Plus, the formatting is very good, as verse on the Kindle goes. As a physical book, I would never have purchased this -- I have too many of these poems in other anthologies or various "collected works. But so many of my favorites in one easy-to-navigate the table of contents is great, you can jump to sections or to a particular poem in a snap , reasonably priced, portable file that can travel with me? That is just what I wanted -- and the unfamiliar poems all of the ones I've read so far are wonderful and the great work by the anthologist are an unexpected bonus.
If you have even the slightest interest in poetry, I can't recommend this anthology highly enough. This is one of those only-book-you-need-on-a-desert-island books. Christopher Burns has put together a poetry anthology that spans the great, the common, and personal favorites, sometimes separately and sometimes overlapping.
His introduction is intelligent and thoughtful. The poems are partnered in ways that elucidate and will make you re-think -- and re-feel -- poems you thought you already knew. This collection manages to "make it new" all over again. I found poems I loved, I found poems and poets I'd never heard of, and I found myself seeing old familiars in totally new ways. This is what poetry should be -- totally fresh, deeply felt, thoughtfully arranged and articulated. The editor finds new but timeless kinships among poems you knew but had never considered side by side.
Carl Sandburg's poem "Jack" "Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun" next to the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" shines a new light on both of them.
Vincent Millay's "God's World" Such radically different styles, separated by only a decade and a war. The difference and the common thread are both exposed by the juxtaposition. This is one of only 2 or 3 poetry volumes that I've found well-formatted for the Kindle.
It is indexed, with a good Table of Contents, all the pieces linked as they need to be on such a device. It is such a refreshing collection I wouldn't mind having it on the Kindle and in print. I think the experience of each would be different, and wonderful. This interesting anthology was first copyrighted in and the Kindle version, which I have came out as Release 3. Love to Save on Books, Movies, and Music? Get exclusive access to all of our latest deals and coupons. Alibris has millions of books at amazingly low prices.
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