Senior Seminar 390
Great Poets and Life Questions
Texts for Class

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wpe3C4.jpg (1952 bytes)     Required Texts:

1. How to Read a Poem--And Start a Poetry Circle by Molly Peacock 1999 Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573221287

2. A Book of Luminous Things: by Czeslaw Milosz 1998 Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0156005743 ;

3. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, Joan Burnham (Translator), Kent Nerburn Hardcover - 128 pages  2000 New World Library; ISBN: 1577311558

4. The Essential Rumi by Jelalludin Rumi Hardcover - 302 pages  1997 Book Sales; ISBN: 078580871X

5. The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry by J. D. McClatchy 1996 Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679741151 ;

6. The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart by James Hillman 1993 Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0060924209

 

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1. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch (April 1, 1999) Harcourt Brace; ISBN: 0151004196 ;

2. A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now Aliki Barnstone   1992   Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 832pp. ISBN: 0805209972 Publisher: Schocken Books, Incorporated

3. 99 Poems in Translation : An Anthology by Harold Pinter 1997 Grove Press; ISBN: 0802134890 ;

4. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke. Stephen Mitchell (Translator), Paperback Reissue edition  1989 Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679722017

5. The Poetry of Our World: An International Anthology of Contemporary Poetry  E. J. Paine (Editor)  2000   ISBN: 0060553693

6. Against Forgetting : Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness by Carolyn Forch�   (Editor)  1993 W W Norton & Co; ISBN: 0393309762

7.  Light upon Light : Inspirations from Rumi  by Andrew Harvey (May 1996) North Atlantic Books; ISBN: 1556432062 ;